True mastery is mastery over self. How well can we imagine?
Published August 13, 2025
A father and son explore Minneapolis in July 2025. Travelogue meets architectural survey meets meditation on what we've lost—and what we might restore.
Published April 30, 2025
While digging into the paper vs electronic pollbook debate, a citizen auditor discovers a plot involving ballot printers in Hennepin County voting precincts.
Published April 16, 2025
Not long after learning about the 700,000 missing ballots, a friend suggested running for Minnesota Secretary of State...
Updated March 10, 2025
In Minnesota, we have paper ballots—but computer scans are counted instead. With no clear path to audit digital records, it's becoming difficult to say for sure what happened.
Erik began writing his first novel at age 16. After leaving corporate America at 27, he published Rise to the Rahz and its sequel Sound of Stone. He's also written on diplomacy games and runs projectminnesota.com.
You can find him writing a blog and helping others write and publish books.
Above: A photo from the mid-2010s