I’m interested in the spaces where silence feels safer than speaking, where proving yourself never really ends, and where compliance becomes the price of belonging.

This isn’t theoretical for me. It’s personal.

For much of my life, I learned how to comply because the power dynamics were stacked against me. That learning took me into some strange places—including working for a man who plausibly claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto and used promised opportunity to coerce compliance—and before that into prison, where powerlessness isn’t abstract and survival depends on knowing when not to speak.

Those experiences gave me an unflinching view of how power actually works: how stigma and poverty narrow people’s options, how shame keeps people quiet, and how institutions often protect those who exploit the imbalance.

I don’t write to sensationalize harm. I write to understand how it becomes normalized and how people survive inside it.

What I Write About

My work explores the invisible social contracts that govern workplaces, relationships, families, and institutions—the unspoken rules that determine who is believed, who is protected, and who pays the price for refusal.

At the center of all of it is a single question: who can afford to say no, and what happens to those who can’t?

The Work

My memoir tells the story of how I came to understand power from both sides, and how those experiences became the framework for everything I write now.

My essays, reporting, and conversations explore what those experiences reveal about the systems we all move through, often without language for what’s happening inside them.