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Andrew Valentine

Updated 2026-08-02

Now

What has my attention at the moment. This page is updated by hand — if it looks stale, it is.

Where things stand

Project status

Homeostasis

A personal operating system that turns ambitions into executable days.

In developmentOpen

Longbarrow

A browser-native strategy world built around intent, terrain, and deterministic combat.

In developmentOpen

The Grammar of Grappling

The Mechanical Principles Behind Every Technique

Manuscript in final revisionOpen

Building

  • Homeostasis — rebuilding the forecasting layer on real adherence data instead of estimates.
  • Longbarrow — deterministic combat simulation and readable low-poly rendering.

Writing

  • The Grammar of Grappling is in final revision. Twenty-two chapters, three appendices.

Reading

  • Strategy, institutional power, and human behaviour — the operating education, not the casual kind.

Training

  • Strength work on a calculated progression, daily mobility, and mat time that keeps feeding the book.

Elsewhere

  • Managing a bar in Virginia Beach, which remains the best systems laboratory I have access to.
  • Slowly working toward a bluewater boat.

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