Theory of ReGrowth · a live book
ReGrowth Rhythms
One series of Theory of ReGrowth
A live book, written in public: a series of essays, organised as a book. It asks how to make the best use of AI for people and the planet: point it at the institution before the task, find the inherited shape of past decisions that keeps running (Conway Debt), and choose what should grow, shrink and regenerate. Sāmatvārtha is the idea’s original, Indic name; ReGrowth is its name in English, set against both degrowth and accelerationism. Its essays become minisodes on YouTube, in the making: minisodes run 7–14 minutes. YouTube also carries other formats, and later other CC IP series. Everything is public. The book’s words, each in a line or two, are in the glossary.
19 chaptersSeed · 17Sprout · 2Rooted · 0
The index, loose for now coming soon
The book is the next step from the author’s Codex essays, which grew from Just Publish It Already, and its index is shaped by their themes. Its order is loose, and the write-ups are coming soon: each grows in the open, one pass at a time, and its row shows where it stands and when it last changed. Seeds are sketched with AI from the author’s notes and the studio’s reading, and say so. A chapter whose argument a checked journal essay already carries is a sprout, and links the essay; nothing is called rooted until the chapter itself is checked. The chapters and their order change only on the author’s word; where one might go another way, its page says so; loose ideas wait in the margins.
- Seed
- A working title, the question it asks and a few notes.
- Sprout
- An outline with its sources, then a draft.
- Rooted
- Checked: its claims sourced, the strongest objection met, its limits stated.
The five dots are its passes: notes, an outline with sources, a draft, checked, and released as a commons.
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Feed Raw Example
The book’s own method: raw signals go in, and the book keeps its canon, its explorations and its branches up to date.
Sections planned: A raw page goes inCanon, margins and branches: how this book keeps itselfCapability is not judgementWhat was the expensive part?
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Sāmatvārtha 15-min Explainer
The starting argument, a fifteen-minute film, taken as an exhibit and checked line by line.
Sections planned: The exhibitWho says whatWhat the book keeps, and what it composts
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Conway Debt
The inherited shape of past decisions, org charts and ontologies, still running after its reasons have gone.
Sections planned: Still saving to floppyNot technical debt, not path dependence, not lock-inThe old form kept after its reason has goneOne ordinary day, audited
Read the checked essay: Your AI Agent Inherited the Bureaucracy
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Game of Life
How a few simple rules make a world that runs itself, with nobody in charge.
Sections planned: A world from a few rulesThe glider: lasting by being rebuiltEmergence without a bossTwo Conways, kept apart for now
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Wolfram Ruliad
Every rule run every way, and why some outcomes can only be found by living the steps.
Sections planned: Every rule, every wayWhy some steps have to be livedAn organisation is a rule set being runThe ruliad and Advaita, side by side
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Organisational Design
Whether what an organisation makes copies the way it talks to itself.
Sections planned: Conway’s lawThe org chart is a decisionA mirror, not a mandateThe case that worked, still being looked for
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Defining Conway Debt
What piles up when Conway’s law runs over time: a definition that has to earn its name.
Sections planned: A definitionThree examples and one non-exampleHow it could be shown wrongA graph of debts, not a list of causes
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AI Is the Audit
Point AI at the institution, not the task, and learn why the work exists before making it faster.
Sections planned: Point it at the institutionWho decided this? When? Is the reason still alive?Cut rules, not peopleAn audit is not a verdictOne case, before and after
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Theory of Memetics
Why the best idea doesn’t always win, and what the best carrier does instead.
Sections planned: The best carrierPropaganda that forms peopleDesire learned from othersWhere the meme analogy breaks
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Theory of Technopoly
When a tool stops serving a culture and starts setting its rules, with ṛta, order as a living rhythm, beside it.
Sections planned: TechnopolyṚta: order as a living rhythmMoloch and ṚtaCosmotechnics, the door between
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TMC
Techno-Memetic Commons: where the work of technology and ideas is kept, so it can be shared without being enclosed.
Sections planned: Techno-Memetic Leverage to Pay Conway DebtOpen is not unenclosablePrivate, permissioned, public: set at every nodeKept by obligation, not by freedom alone
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Signal of Goodhart’s Law
What happens when a measure becomes a target and AI can carry the target out.
Sections planned: A metric is a policyWhose chart of accounts?Measure to learn, not to rankEvery target an expiry date
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Sutra of Pañca Ṛṇa
Five obligations a price forgets, held as a working hypothesis.
Sections planned: Five obligationsHonour or accumulateA market is a machine for forgetting who owes whomThree or five?
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Sutra of the Sāmatvārtha Mandala
The Sāmatvārtha Mandala, the ReGrowth Automaton in English: one balance that repeats at every scale.
Sections planned: Balance and prosperityHousehold, commons, market, stateKṣetra · Karm · Kula, in one KośaAs in the self, so in the cosmos
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Regrowth, Not Degrowth
Growth as a direction, not only a number: what should grow, shrink and regenerate, for whom and at whose cost.
Sections planned: Right about the fireGrowth is a vectorThe substrate is the variableRestore, regenerate, renew
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India Is Not a Download
A country’s own path through the AI era, argued from its own ground rather than copied.
Sections planned: Not a downloadStrata of decisions, not peoplesModel · harness · meta-harness · makeSeventy hours
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Laffer Chirality
A new concept in the making: the Laffer curve and chirality, read against the false dichotomies of the AI debate.
Sections planned: Same plane, false dichotomiesThe curveThe mirrorTrue at which layer?
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Pareto-Normal
A held place: the name is written; the idea is still the author’s to give.
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SuperPositivity
Holding many possibilities open and acting on one, and a different lens on superintelligence.
Sections planned: SuperpositionKeep the possibilities open, act on oneSupernegativity: collapsing everything at onceA different lens on superintelligenceYour raw page
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What changed
- 29 Sep 2026 The book is named: ReGrowth Rhythms, and in its Indic name, Sāmatvārtha Sutra.
- 29 Sep 2026 Nineteen chapters seeded, each with its question and its planned sections; this index became their tracker.
- 29 Sep 2026 Laffer Chirality and SuperPositivity added as new concepts, still being defined.
- 29 Sep 2026 The three checked journal essays linked to the chapters they carry or open.
- 29 Sep 2026 Seventeen chapters gain a door, an everyday scene, and a line or two they may earn, each marked as a seed.
- 30 Sep 2026 On the author’s word, chapter 1 (Feed Raw Example) and the glossary’s AGI and AI is the Audit take the first sentence in new words.
- 1 Oct 2026 On the author’s word, the first sentence goes back to its words: AGI is here.
In the margins
Explorations that are not chapters of their own yet; some sit inside one for now. Some will become chapters, some will fold into one, some will be composted. They stay in view on purpose.
- What was the expensive part? If intelligence gets cheap, what was costly all along? For now inside Feed Raw Example.
- Household, commons, market, state. Four ways we provide for each other, after Kate Raworth’s embedded economy. When no one assigns a cost, where does it land? For now inside the mandala.
- A market is a machine for forgetting who owes whom. For now inside Pañca Ṛṇa.
- Moloch and Ṛta. The race nobody chose, and order as a living rhythm. For now inside Technopoly.
- Model · harness · meta-harness · make. Distilling intelligence into tools rather than into weights. For now inside India Is Not a Download.
- Seventy hours. What is abundance for, if we still work seventy-hour weeks? For now inside India Is Not a Download.
- Roles before agents. Conway’s law run backwards: fit the organisation to the product.
- The ruliad and Advaita. Whether they deserve a chapter of their own.
- Compost feeds the next bloom. The drafts this book grew out of, told or kept.
- Editing with readers. How the book might one day be edited with the people who read it: a voice on a free book, never a gate.
- Essay titles waiting for a place (drafted, not yet checked or published): A Better Room Is a Form of Technology · A Category Is a Tiny Government · Your Company Is a Myth With Payroll · The Future Arrives as a Default Setting · The Feed Is a Market for Nervous Systems · Your Ambition Has Other People’s Fingerprints · The Most Scalable Thing Is a Standard · Resilience Is Redundancy That Survived a Finance Meeting.
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Beside the book · the Pañca Ṛṇa IKS Crash Course
Five short lessons, planned to run alongside chapter 13, one for each obligation the book treats as a working hypothesis, read here as: bhūta, the earth and its ecosystems; manuṣya, fellow humans and society; pitṛ, household, lineage and care; ṛṣi, knowledge, culture and the commons; deva, governance, the higher order. The glosses are this book’s reading. Its one exercise: sort a month of your own spending into the five, privately, on your own device. Older texts most often speak of three debts; the five here are a synthesis, offered as one. Each lesson is a seed.
Reading is open now. Comments and feedback on each chapter come later, once the book has its readers.