About
What Modern Minuteman is, where it came from, and who's behind it.
What We Do and Don't Do
- Lawful civic resilience only. No security services, no partisan operations, no clandestine activity.
- Attention is a commons. No global chat. Async communication through AARs and scheduling only.
- Stop conditions. Lack of consent, safety risk, or mission creep → halt, log, escalate.
The original minutemen were civilian colonists who independently organized to be ready at a minute's notice. They weren't professional soldiers. They were farmers, tradespeople, fathers — people with lives and responsibilities who took it upon themselves to be capable of acting when it mattered.
Modern Minuteman updates this for contemporary conditions. The threats are different — attention capture, narrative manipulation, institutional decay, atomization — but the response is the same: ordinary people taking responsibility for their own readiness and organizing with others who do the same.
Most people today are vulnerable to involuntary recruitment. Their attention is captured. Their worldview is shaped by whoever controls the information environment. When crises come, they react rather than respond — pulled into movements and causes that don't serve their actual interests.
This isn't stupidity or weakness. It's the default condition when you haven't done the work to establish:
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Sovereignty over your own attention and direction
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A clear understanding of your own interests and values
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Connections with others who share your commitments
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Practical capability to act on what you know
Modern Minuteman is a structure for doing that work. Not a course you complete and forget. Not content to consume. A membership organization with an ongoing rhythm:
Weekly accountability. Peer support. Practical skills. Guest instructors who've done the work. A body of people who take this seriously.
The goal is to become a capable civic operator — someone who can articulate and pursue their interests, resist manipulation, and contribute to collective action when it matters.
Modern Minuteman is a Statecraft Systems production, run by Moritz Bierling.
Moritz Bierling
Writer, systems thinker, and Principal of Statecraft Systems. VP at Natural Law Institute. VP of Business Development at Runcible. Author of the forthcoming book Modern Minuteman.
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2025
The Formation
Ongoing membership structure with computable operator standards (L1/L2). Weekly calls. Continuous enrollment.
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2025
MM02: Campaign
30-day intensive with 9 guest instructors. Crew formation, concrete objectives, real outcomes.
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2024
MM01: Basics
First cohort-based course. Established core curriculum and community foundation.
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2024
Concept Development
Framework developed from years of thinking about civic capacity, institutional decay, and practical preparation.
Organizations and people we work with and recommend.
Natural Law Institute
The science of cooperation. Teaching law from first principles, building competent communities, and creating the commons infrastructure for trust, excellence, and coordinated action.
Tortuga Society
Professional fraternity for knowledge workers. Remote work optimization, career strategy, and financial independence. Formation members get 50% off membership.
Core Human Competence
Luke Weinhagen's leadership and human performance work. Developing the foundational capabilities that make effective action possible.
True North
Noah Revoy's coaching and mission-oriented life design. Helping men organize their lives around what actually matters.