The Journal for Jurisdiction Planning has published The Sovereign Family, its manifesto. Roughly US$90 trillion will pass from one generation to the next over the coming decades, and most of it will land in jurisdictions that families never chose. The manifesto sets out how a family chooses them, and the standard that the advisors who help with that choice should hold themselves to.
On pistomechanics.org I published From ʿApiru to Hebrew, an essay on how the Hebrews emerged in part from the ʿApiru, the Bronze Age name for people who lived outside the order of the towns. The podcast opened a special series, Heaven to Earth, with the story of Sargon of Akkad, who built the first empire in history and was found as a baby in a basket on the river long before Moses.
At Bridge Legacy, we work under the articles of the Association for Jurisdiction Planning, the standard the manifesto sets for the advisors who serve families.
Log begun August 2026; earlier months written looking back.
I rewrote the front page of pistomechanics.org so it says plainly what pistomechanics is: the study of belief engineering, which gathers disparate sources into one discipline.
I built a council where my AI agents gather automatically in my Vizier AI System. Each one speaks after hearing the ones before it.
I released Homesick and Deal with the Devil, the sixth and seventh episodes of the Pistomechanics podcast, and gave every episode a Portuguese transcript.
I built my son a site where he runs his Pokémon cards like a small business. It shows what he holds, what each card is worth and what he has traded.
I spoke to students at the American School of Brasília, where I studied, about how a fortune is built on trust and on the people around you.
At the school’s reunion the next day, Philippe Seabra of Plebe Rude introduced me, and I sang Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival with the band.
Rebranding Bridge Legacy with two giants of Brazilian advertising (names yet to be announced), who became our Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Creative Officer. The meetings have been truly exciting. I thought I knew marketing from doing it for so many years; it feels good to be humbled by actual excellence. We are trying to nail what the sovereign family needs of this world. When we do, we will offer freedom, not service.
Also this month: rebuilt this site, and preparing a catalog of essays under my own name. Don’t know where to host it yet.
I published the No Alvo interviews that had never aired, among them Renata Almeida, Eduardo Ávila and Paulo Sergio Niemeyer, each with a full transcript.
I released Counterfeit and Master Key, the fourth and fifth episodes of the Pistomechanics podcast.
Launched the Pistomechanics podcast (eps 1-3). Using AI instead of my voice for speed and accuracy. It feels great to have sci-fi at my fingertips. We can concentrate on what matters instead of our own images and fantasies.
I also did something I’ve been putting off for years. Brought all 106 No Alvo interviews back online with full transcripts.
I’m organising jurisdictionplanning.org, it’s going to be the birth of not only a new industry, but a new lifestyle for many families.
Wrote the essays that later would become pistomechanics.org. Read Donald Hoffman on conscious agents against my own belief-mechanics thesis. The main research started with Hoffman, Itzhak Bentov and Yehuda Ashlag.
The point of this is really to study. I think it’s time we made sense of this stuff as a species, we’ve always used it, but never made clear sense of it all.
Deep in family-lineage research: tracing my lines through eighteenth-century Sergipe records. I’ve discovered my family beyond 1463. I’m excited to find the missing links!
Began hosting weekly Friday night dinners with friends, a sort of neo-Shabbat movement. I feel like I’m back in the hosting game.
Built the first version of my personal AI system: Vizier. I call it Vizier because I think every person should be run like a state but with Vision, and the Vizier was the prime minister of the most complex and ambitious of states, the one that physically went the farthest, the Ottoman Empire. I have one intelligence running my house, from correspondence to archives. Dona Martha picks up my AI coffee, and automatically sticks things in my calendar I wouldn’t care to remember.
I wrote a few columns for the Brazilian press. We’re thinking about branding in Bridge Legacy.