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The Signals

Fourteen signals. One lighthouse. Each chapter of Rehumanizing Trust opens as a parable: the Keeper, the Stranger, and the fog between worlds. A new signal lights every week until the book publishes on 15 September 2026 — and the watch keeps burning after.

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Lit so far

CH·01

Living Between Two Worlds · ‘Arrival’

A knock through the veiled silence of the bay. A Stranger arrives seeking a signal the world forsook.

CH·02

Identity in a World of Logins · ‘Recordkeeper’

Who are you when the form decides? What survives of a person once they have been made machine-readable.

CH·03

Noble Intentions, Darker Realities · ‘The Beaconwright’s Folly’

Every system begins as someone’s good idea. How well-meant design quietly crosses the invisible line.

CH·04

What Machines Miss · ‘The Driftlight’

The data captures everything except what mattered. Presence, ambiguity, care: the unmeasurables.

CH·05

Diginalogue · ‘The Archive of Gestures’

A language between digital and analogue: how meaning survives translation, and how it does not.

CH·06

Weaponized Trust · ‘The Signal Which Sank the Bell’

Systems exploit the good in us: how openness becomes attack surface, and what refuses to be exploited.

Still to come

CH·07

Signal lights 21 July 2026

CH·08

Signal lights 28 July 2026

CH·09

Signal lights 4 August 2026

CH·10

Signal lights 11 August 2026

CH·11

Signal lights 18 August 2026

CH·12

Signal lights 25 August 2026

CH·13

Signal lights 1 September 2026

CH·14

Signal lights 8 September 2026

FINALE

Signal lights 15 September 2026

How to follow

The watch grows by one signal every week until 15 September 2026, and keeps burning after. Subscribe once, and the light simply stays on. Or begin with the book and read them all on day one.