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Sovereignty Is Having an Exit
A practical view of digital sovereignty built around portability, rebuildability, and keeping services replaceable rather than trying to self-host everything.
Software, security, systems, music.
Robert Ryan Jennings
Web logs of a software development engineer, musician, artist and hockey player.
Essays on software engineering, mobile and backend security, architecture, older systems, and the occasional adjacent obsession.
Content expressed is my own and does not reflect the opinions of any entity.
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Globalization and the Problem of Exit
Sep 24, 2026 8:15PM
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2564 words
The internet blurred jurisdiction while corporations, data, AI, and supply chains became global. What would cooperation look like if sovereignty and the right to exit still mattered?
What if Work Became Optional?
Sep 24, 2026 8:00PM
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Could AI, shared productive capital, and resource accounting make employment optional without making society dysfunctional?