{
  "about": "Ben Charney builds systems, pays attention to incentives, and tries to turn personal judgment into testable, durable artifacts.",
  "mission": "Build practical systems that improve decision-making, preserve context, and make my worldview more legible and testable over time.",
  "telos": [
    "TELOS is my personal framework for tracking purpose and direction in life.",
    "It keeps missions, goals, beliefs, challenges, narratives, wisdom, and predictions in plain markdown.",
    "The point is to keep the important parts of my operating system human-readable, searchable, and easy to update."
  ],
  "preferences": [
    "Working style: plain text, structured markdown, and clean feedback loops",
    "Interface style: minimal, fast, and understandable",
    "Analysis style: evidence-first, no fluff"
  ],
  "predictions": [
    "China will surpass the US and sustain global dominance for centuries (Probable; made 2026-06-03; resolves Ongoing)",
    "Crypto (ETH, BTC, stablecoins) becomes a dominant global asset class (Probable; made 2026-06-12; resolves 2030)",
    "UBI becomes necessary / implemented in developed nations (Almost Certain; made 2026-06-12; resolves 2030)",
    "Governments regulate AI and tax corporate usage relative to human employment (Probable; made 2026-06-12; resolves 2030)",
    "AI replaces most customer service-like workflows within companies (Probable; made 2026-06-20; resolves 2028)"
  ],
  "projects": {
    "technical": [
      "Public daemon source and predictions mirror",
      "Personal systems for context and decision-making"
    ],
    "creative": [],
    "personal": []
  },
  "last_updated": "2026-07-02",
  "sync_status": {
    "daemon_md": "mirrors public daemon.md"
  },
  "tool_count": 0
}