https://johnrfite.com/ Strategy games, music, essays and small tools by John Fite, most of them about deciding well when you can’t see the whole board. en Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://johnrfite.com/writing/coherence-framework/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/coherence-framework/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing A philosophy for acting well when you can’t be sure. Nothing can handle more of the world than it can keep track of. https://johnrfite.com/writing/trusting-the-descent/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/trusting-the-descent/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing Patriotism after the balloon: what loyalty to a country looks like once you know everything that is wrong with it. A companion to the Balloon trilogy. https://johnrfite.com/writing/load-you-cant-see/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/load-you-cant-see/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing An essay on how systems lose contact with reality, how coherence debt accumulates, and how to find the signal again. https://johnrfite.com/writing/apex-diagnostic-topology/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/apex-diagnostic-topology/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing A diagnostic atlas of twenty apex cities scored across Alpha, Omega, Extraction, Archive, Kinetic, Refinement, policy-amplified pain, accountability asymmetry, and meaning override. https://johnrfite.com/writing/network-vs-territorial-power/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/network-vs-territorial-power/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing A first-principles framework for usable power, strategic time, and modern great-power rivalry: network optionality versus territorial-production mass. https://johnrfite.com/writing/sovereignty-stack/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/sovereignty-stack/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing A framework for geopolitics after the post-Cold War order: who actually holds power when states, trade blocs, digital networks and AI-equipped individuals all claim a share of it. https://johnrfite.com/writing/anchor/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/anchor/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing The Human Future in the AI Era, Part III. A terrain map, not a survival manual: forkability and fragility, the five-property fusion test, why a small bedrock is not small demand, and the two questions the future turns on. https://johnrfite.com/writing/the-stakes/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/the-stakes/ Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing The Human Future in the AI Era, Part II. A diagnostic, not a survival guide: how to tell real, irreversible stakes from theatrical ones. https://johnrfite.com/writing/balloon/ https://johnrfite.com/writing/balloon/ Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Writing Why the AI epoch isn’t what most people think it is, and why most takes on it, including one of mine, fall short.