This Wasn’t a Phase

Seven years ago, I was livestreaming every morning at 5:30 from EKH Studio One. There were no audience metrics to monitor, no product roadmap to explain, and no ecosystem to justify. It was just a camera, a cup of coffee, and a habit of thinking out loud before the day began. The video below is from one of those mornings, and I’m sharing it now for three simple reasons: the topic is still relevant, the way of thinking didn’t start recently, and what I’m building today is not a pivot but an extension.

The subject of this particular livestream is the Third Amendment, an obscure part of the Bill of Rights that most people have never read and almost no one discusses. That choice alone tells you something. I’ve always been drawn to the spaces that sit between the loud debates, the parts of systems that get ignored because they aren’t immediately useful, monetizable, or polarizing. This wasn’t a performance designed to attract attention. It was a practice. Thinking in public, slowly and imperfectly, without waiting for consensus or permission.

When I talk now about Founders’ Room, Court 4, and Communiplasticity Solutions, I’m not introducing a new version of myself. I’m giving structure to instincts that have been present for decades. Back then, the medium was a livestream. Today, it’s architecture. Back then, the question was constitutional drift. Today, it’s developmental drift. The concern is the same, the orientation is the same, and the difference lies in having better tools.

I’m not asking you to agree with everything you hear in this video. I don’t agree with everything in it myself, because thinking either evolves or it hardens. What I am inviting you to notice is the pattern: how problems are approached, where attention goes first, what’s being protected, and what’s being questioned. That pattern hasn’t changed.

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I’ve never been interested in chasing relevance. I’ve been interested in staying oriented while the ground shifts.

What I’m building now didn’t appear overnight. It grew out of mornings like this one, long before there was language for it.

This video is just a marker on a much longer arc.

P.S. One of the strangest things about building in public for a long time is that people eventually discover your past and assume it’s a rebrand. Usually, it’s the opposite.