<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Isaac Liem · Essays</title><description>Long-form writing on protocols, privacy, audit, and infrastructure. By Isaac Liem.</description><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Load-Bearing Memory: The Bones Remember</title><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/what-the-bone-remembers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/what-the-bone-remembers/</guid><description>In April someone gave the third layer of the agent stack a name. The name is context. It is the wrong name, and the wrong name is the reason nobody has built the right thing.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>receipts</category><category>evidence</category><category>architecture</category><category>memory</category><category>eviduciary</category></item><item><title>Order of Arrival</title><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/order-of-arrival/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/order-of-arrival/</guid><description>The part you recognize a thing by and the part that makes it durable are almost never the same part. A note, a dog, and a system, on the same argument.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>core-and-transient</category><category>architecture</category><category>strategy</category><category>voice</category></item><item><title>The Unarmed Gate</title><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/the-unarmed-gate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/the-unarmed-gate/</guid><description>I run every session with permissions bypassed. That is not the absence of a floor. It is the removal of one that was never load bearing, and the installation of one that is.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>receipts</category><category>sovereignty</category><category>architecture</category></item><item><title>The Dumb Lock</title><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/the-dumb-lock/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/the-dumb-lock/</guid><description>There is a room under every life now. A low hum of everything you have ever written down, every contact, every decision with its reasons still attached, sitting in one place and vibrating at a frequency only you are supposed to hear.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>memory</category><category>sovereignty</category><category>architecture</category><category>agents</category></item><item><title>The Substructure Signal: What Ledgers Expose When Systems Hit Their Breaking Point</title><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/the-substructure-signal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/the-substructure-signal/</guid><description>A ledger is a record. A tolerance limit is a wall. When a system hits that wall, the ledger becomes the only witness that matters. A short essay on why the deepest truth about any system lives in its low frequencies.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>systems</category><category>architecture</category><category>sovereignty</category><category>identity</category></item><item><title>AIP by AIP: Proof of Build</title><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/aip-by-aip-proof-of-build/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/aip-by-aip-proof-of-build/</guid><description>How I&apos;m using the protocol I built to prove I built the protocol. A short note on the Proof of Build loop, why it compounds, and why AIP will forever be validated by AIP.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>aip</category><category>proof-of-build</category><category>selective-disclosure</category><category>v1.1.0</category></item><item><title>Why AIP exists</title><link>https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/why-aip-exists/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ikeanalytics.com/articles/why-aip-exists/</guid><description>AIP is the receipts layer for autonomous agents. A local, signed, hash-chained audit log is the product; the handshake is just the warm-up.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>aip</category><category>protocols</category><category>interoperability</category><category>privacy</category><category>audit</category></item></channel></rss>