Why do some things last — bodies, institutions, relationships, ideas — while others quietly erode, even when they appear stable on the surface? This book takes a chronodynamic view of that question. It explores what it takes to persist — in your body, your work, your relationships, and the larger systems you depend on — and what it costs when the feedback that holds things together falls behind the erosion that pulls them apart.
For anyone who has noticed that something about the patterns they're sustaining is off, and wants a structural explanation rather than a morning routine.
Forthcoming 2026Natural selection did not begin with life. Life is what selection looks like once memory becomes heritable and persistence becomes self-reinforcing. This book removes the traditional boundary between the origin of life and the origin of evolution, and traces a continuous physical logic in which selection — the differential persistence of some patterns over others — operates from the first moment chemistry becomes historical, long before anything we would call an organism exists.
For readers of Nick Lane, Sean Carroll, and Peter Godfrey-Smith.
ForthcomingThe comprehensive technical development of the chronodynamic framework. Beginning from a formally proved persistence theorem grounded in Freidlin–Wentzell large-deviations theory, this monograph follows the persistence inequality across every scale of physical organisation: atoms, stars, geological formations, dissipative structures, prebiotic chemistry, cellular regulation, evolution, ecosystems, neural prediction, intelligence, and the economics of complexity. Includes testable predictions, solvable models, cross-scale Π estimates, and speculative extensions.
For scientists and technically serious readers across physics, biology, and complexity science.
Forthcoming