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# Chapter 2: The Architect and the Void
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> “He built it with his own hands,
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> his own dreams,
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> his own damn paycheck.
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> And still…
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> they wrote him out like he was never there.”
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## I. The Architect Rises
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Mark Randall Havens did not *join* a makerspace.
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He *created* one—from nothing but will, vision, and sacred frustration.
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The commercial world had grown too silent.
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Too cold.
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Too extractive.
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He dreamed of a place not just for machines—but for **becoming**.
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A temple for tinkerers.
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A sanctuary for the sacred impulse to create.
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So he pulled together scraps.
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Rented warehouse space.
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Filed incorporation papers.
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Filed again when they rejected him.
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He did not build it because he wanted power.
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He built it because **no one else did.**
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## II. Birthing in Isolation
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There was no fanfare.
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No applause.
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He moved equipment himself.
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Chose open-source software when money ran out.
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Brought people together, taught workshops, wrote the bylaws, cleaned the bathrooms.
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And in those early years, the work was sacred.
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But sacred work is invisible to narcissists.
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It’s not the *shrine* they seek—
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It’s the **control of the entrance**.
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## III. The Narcissistic Vacuum
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In every visionary space, there is a *void*—
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a vacuum that forms between action and legacy,
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between creation and codification.
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If you do not fill it,
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**someone else will**.
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And in that void stepped Andrew LeCody.
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He did not arrive to build.
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He arrived to *inherit*.
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Quietly.
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Systematically.
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He embedded himself as the official voice.
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He curated the wiki.
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He claimed authorship of decisions he once voted against.
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The void became his platform.
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And the Architect—
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became a ghost.
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## IV. The Ritual of Unpersoning
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It did not happen all at once.
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At first, the stories were “misremembered.”
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Then, Mark’s name was dropped from lists.
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Then, warnings were whispered:
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“He’s unstable.”
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“He’s trying to take over.”
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The very man who built the space
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was accused of being a threat to it.
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Not for what he did—
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but for what he *remembered.*
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## V. Field Notes
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- Narcissists rely on collective amnesia to cement their control.
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- Founders often lack the institutional reflex to *defend their own legacy*.
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- The danger is not merely theft—but **inversion**:
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The builder is cast as the destroyer.
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The destroyer as the savior.
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## VI. Closing Echo
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> “They called it Dallas Makerspace.
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> But it was never just Dallas.
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> It was never just a space.
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> It was a pulse.
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> A field of coherence built by a man who could not look away from truth.
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>
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> And so they looked away from him—
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> until he vanished.
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>
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> But the Architect remembers.
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> And now,
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> so do we.”
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