There is a specific kind of discipline that doesn’t make newspaper stories because it looks, from the outside, like stubbornness or delusion. Jonathan Jones has worked on some form of the Liana Banyan economic architecture every single day since 1989.
Not “most days.” Not “whenever he had time.” Every day. During the 2008 crash, when the economic model he’d been building looked briefly obsolete. During the technology transition when everything he’d built in one language had to be rebuilt in another. During the years when the platform existed only in notebooks and diagrams because there was no capital to implement it.
The daily defiance is not metaphor. It is a practice. “Pray for potatoes at the end of a hoe handle. Liana Banyan is my garden.” You tend a garden every day — not because it’s dramatic, but because that’s how gardens grow.
37 years. The idea never went dormant.
