The Well
This is the deep end.
Most of this site is built from extractions — short, sharp passages drawn from hundreds of original pieces written between 2022 and 2025. Those extractions are the entry points. They’re designed to be quick, punchy, and self-contained.
But every extraction has a source. If you’re the kind of reader who wants the full argument — the complete intellectual journey, the digressions, the context, the passion — this is where you’ll find it.
396 original pieces across three projects, written between 2022 and 2025:
- Disinfolklore — 134 pieces. The framework itself: Twelve Tools, core methodology, essays on the nature of weaponised folklore, and podcast explorations. This is where the theory lives.
- Case Studies — 204 pieces by Decoding Trolls. Real-time analyses, pensees, and podcasts applying the framework to live geopolitical events — from Putin’s chef problem to Prigozhin’s coup.
- Finding Manuland — 70 pieces. The foundational “codebase” research: tracing the M-N- sound from ancient Ukraine through Indo-European languages to the concept of Mana.
How to navigate
Each article in The Well carries a Source attribution linking back to the extraction that drew from it. Similarly, extractions throughout the site link forward to their Well source with a “Read the full piece” link. Follow either direction.
The auto-generated listings below each index show every article with its description and reading time, so you can browse before you dive.
These are the originals. Uncut. Unabridged. The way they were written.