Writing & Photography

Collected thoughts, images, and projects by Ray Saltini

Writing

SEO to GEO: Mental Model #13 - Composable Advantage

SEO to GEO: Mental Model #13 - Composable Advantage

Composable architectures are not just a better way to build websites. They are a structural advantage for GEO — if you recognize why. Most conversation

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SEO to GEO: Mental Model #12 - Surface Consistency

SEO to GEO: Mental Model #12 - Surface Consistency

Your site is not the corpus, win GEO by owning consistency across the surfaces models pull from. Most teams still treat “the website” as the primary so

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SEO to GEO: Mental Model #11 - Keep Clean

SEO to GEO: Mental Model #11 - Keep Clean

Claim hygiene: if you can’t be summarized safely, you’ll be misrepresented (and that can hurt you). Being included in an AI-generated answer feels like

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SEO to GEO: Mental Model #10 - Fly Wheels

SEO to GEO: Mental Model #10 - Fly Wheels

Build the citation flywheel, make your best proof the easiest thing to cite. In classic SEO, winning meant ranking and earning the click. In GEO, winnin

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Projects

The Practice Economy

The Practice Economy

The Practice Economy treats practice as its own category, not quite work, not quite leisure, and poorly served by the tools most people rely on. It defines how practice compounds over time, from intent to sessions, artifacts, choices, outcomes, and iteration, and outlines the principles of a Practice Operating System that preserves context, supports momentum, and makes progress easier to sustain.

People and Behavior
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To Buy or Not to Buy

To Buy or Not to Buy

This project treats the marketplace as a system individuals can influence through boycotts, buycotts, divestment, labor withholding, and coordinated refusal. It shows how everyday choices become collective pressure that can shape reputation, capital, and legitimacy, and why these efforts often stall when goals blur and impact is hard to measure. At the center is a lifecycle: trigger to intention, intention to coordination, coordination to pressure, pressure to response, response to outcomes.

Politics and Institutions
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Photography

Red Bird

Red Bird

Color and contrast with specks of snow against a black mask on a bright afternoon.

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