Russell H. Ritchey. Mechanical engineer. Poet. Independent researcher. Forty-four years of work outside every institution built for people who do this kind of work.
Writer of the Transmission trilogy. Keeper of the EDT corpus. Builder of things. Transmitter of signals. Based near a river in Waco with two dogs and a legal pad.
Operating principle: Freely Given — Freely Give — No Rights Reserved.
B.S.M.E., University of Texas at Austin. Mechanical engineer by training. Independent researcher, poet, and author by vocation. Based in Waco, Texas.
Forty-four years developing the EDT framework — a falsifiable eliminative argument for the ground of normative obligation. The poems came first. The argument was built to explain what the poems already knew.
Theological orientation: Messianic / Hebrew Roots. Church of One. Outside institutional Christianity — not against it.
Everything produced under the operating principle: Freely Given — Freely Give — No Rights Reserved. Transmission is the point.
Seventy-three poems across three movements, a hinge, and an appendix. 1982 to 2026. The Descent, the Witness, the Transmission.
Three books. One continuous signal. Twenty-six transmissions. An alien finds Voyager 1. The logic runs from there.