Section A — “The Problem You Already Have”

Type: Essay series (3–4 pieces)

Priority: 🟡 Write Next (60–90 days)

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Purpose

Describe problems the audience already feels — before mentioning KERI at all.

Rule

No KERI mentioned yet. These should feel uncomfortably familiar to the reader.

Candidate Essays

A1. Why Every Growing Community Eventually Centralizes Power

• The volunteer coordinator who becomes indispensable
• Information asymmetry as power accumulation
• The trust paradox: more trust → more centralization

A2. Why Platforms Start Helpful and End Extractive

• The honeymoon phase
• Network effects as lock-in
• When “free” becomes dependency

A3. Why Trust Doesn’t Scale, But Accountability Can

• Dunbar’s number and its implications
• Trust as personal relationship vs. trust as system property
• The verification gap

A4. Why Compliance Hurts Small Organizations the Most

• Fixed costs, variable capacity
• The audit burden
• When proving innocence costs more than guilt

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TODO: Write essays