A wiki built from reading. Every page on this site traces back to a highlighted passage, a bracket in a margin, or a note written while sitting with a book. The goal is not to record what books say but to develop what they mean: to find the ideas worth thinking about and think about them carefully, in prose, over time. Pages are never finished. They deepen as new sources add new angles. The connections between pages matter as much as the pages themselves. --- ## How this works I read with a pen. Passages I care about get underlined, bracketed, or noted in the margin. After reading, those annotations are extracted and routed to concept pages: each one an account of a single idea, written in full sentences, enriched by every book that has touched it. The page grows each time a new source approaches the same concept from a new direction. Two types of pages make up the wiki. **Concept pages** are the substance: analytical prose, written as if the thought arrived fully formed rather than assembled from fragments. **Book pages** are navigation hubs: lean records of what a book contributed, linking out to every concept it developed. Start anywhere. Follow the links. --- ## Domains ### [[Digital Platforms]] How internet platforms exercise power over public discourse: the politics of content moderation, the cultural assumptions encoded in global rules, and what it means for private companies to govern speech at a scale no prior institution has matched. *Recently updated* - [[Platform Power]]: the structural authority platforms exercise over speech, and the gap between their self-presentation and what they actually do - [[Content Moderation]]: the practice of deciding what platforms permit, and why no version of it is neutral - [[Norm Conflict]]: what happens when a single rule collides with two legitimate but incompatible values - [[Photojournalism]]: the ethics of documentary photography, and why platform content rules keep breaking on war images - [[Richard Nixon]]: the political reflex to discredit inconvenient images, which predates social media by fifty years --- ### [[Christian Formation]] What it actually means to follow Jesus (not believe the right things about him, but learn from him how to live). The concepts here orbit a single question: how does a person become the kind of person who lives the way Jesus taught? *Recently updated* - [[Discipleship]]: active apprenticeship to Jesus as a teacher of life, as opposed to passive consumption of doctrinal benefits - [[Grace]]: the invitation to life in God's kingdom, and how it gets reduced to a transaction about forgiveness - [[Legalism]]: the structural failure of religion that replaces transformation with compliance - [[Sermon on the Mount]]: Jesus's central curriculum, and the dominant misreading that turns it into a set of impossible commands - [[Dallas Willard]]: the philosopher-theologian who insists that Jesus's teaching is real information about how to live --- ## Sources 2 books processed. - [[Custodians of the Internet (2018)]]: Tarleton Gillespie on how platforms govern speech, and what their moderation choices reveal about power - [[The Divine Conspiracy (1997)]]: Dallas Willard on discipleship as active apprenticeship, and the failure of institutional Christianity to teach it