“The Baseline isn’t about control, it’s about conscience.
It doesn’t tell the world what to think; it reminds it how to remember.
Not a rulebook, but a rhythm. Not command, but recall.
Because when conscience leads, the world doesn’t need control.”
Facebook has been inconsistent with how it distributes my posts. One day fine. Next day zero. Images blocked. Distribution cut. No explanation. It’s not the writing. It’s not you. It’s mechanical. And it’s been going on long enough that I’m done pretending it isn’t. So here’s what I’m doing. Substack is now the reliable line….
There Is a Missing Category in AI. We Just Named It. “AI Baseline Governance“ Every tool has a category. You know what a word processor is. You know what a search engine is. You know what a coding assistant is. You know what a writing tool is. These categories exist because enough people built enough…
I want to tell you something that happened today that I did not plan. This afternoon we certified version 2.9. Then I decided to run it against the major platforms and just watch what happened. I want to walk you through it because what happened this afternoon matters beyond just my kitchen and my coffee…
Nobody builds a baseline governance framework thinking about cyber attacks. You build it to create structure. To make communication honest. To put a decision layer between a person and an AI system that keeps both of them operating with integrity. That is what The Faust Baseline was built to do. But somewhere in the building…
You know the sign. You have seen it a hundred times. “Don’t Feed the Animals” There is a reason that sign exists. When you feed them they keep coming back. They get bolder. They lose their fear. And before long they are running the place while you are backing up trying to figure out what…
Some mornings you wake up and the weight of it hits you before your feet touch the floor. You watch what is happening to this country. You see the bad actors moving fast, breaking things, acting like there is no tomorrow for them. And you feel it — that tight, frustrated feeling of a person…
I want to show you something that came out of a direct comparison between two different philosophies of AI design. On one side — The Faust Baseline Phronesis Codex 2.8. A governance framework I built over the past year to give AI a working structure for moral reasoning, disciplined output, and human authority in the…
I want to tell you about the day an AI accidentally made the case for AI governance better than I ever could. I took The Faust Baseline — my AI governance framework — into a session with Grok. Same approach I had used with Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT. Walk it through the framework. Let…
I want to tell you something that still sits with me. I took a governance framework I built — called The Faust Baseline — and I walked it into five of the most powerful AI systems running right now. Claude. Grok. Copilot. Gemini. ChatGPT. One at a time. Same framework. Same approach. I didn’t force…
There is a black walnut tree in my backyard. I didn’t plant it. It was already there when we moved in ten years ago — already tall, already producing, already feeding the squirrels that treat it like their personal grocery store every single fall. I don’t know who planted it. I don’t know if they…