# Signal or Residue

A series by Marc DeCaria in 3 parts, in reading order.

1. [Signal or Residue: So How Do You Not Get Pruned](https://marcdecaria.com/writing/signal-or-residue-so-how-do-you-not-get-pruned.md), 2026-03-03: Answers how to stay signal rather than residue as the larger system reorganizes: read overwhelm as a boundary signal and keep expanding instead of contracting.
2. [Dumb Pipes, Frozen Boundaries, and the Infrastructure We Haven't Built Yet](https://marcdecaria.com/writing/dumb-pipes-frozen-boundaries-and-the-infrastructure-we-havent-built-yet.md), 2026-03-05: Argues that ownership is a crude fix for extraction and that value needs adaptive membranes, infrastructure able to tell reciprocal exchange from extraction.
3. [The Container and the Proof](https://marcdecaria.com/writing/the-container-and-the-proof.md), 2026-03-05: Frames this reality as a sealed container that runs every configuration of consciousness to completion, with amnesia as the design requirement that keeps the data clean.