Attention
What enters.
Taste,
systems,
memory.
an annotated life in progress.
I design systems for thinking, and ship the software underneath.
A working index of ideas, experiments, companies, songs, and unfinished questions.
Off-desk: open water, long rides, the slow loop that resets the thinking.
§ 01 — Thesis
spec / one paragraph
Most AI work optimizes for speed and scale. I’m more interested in the orthogonal problem: how to design systems that remain useful under sustained human attention.
This site is a record of that exploration. You’ll find notes on cognition, memory, product design, creative practice, and the occasional unfinished idea that refuses to leave me alone.
The work is intentionally incomplete. I’d rather publish a living question than a polished certainty.
If you’re building tools for thought, memory, attention, learning, or human flourishing, there’s a good chance we’re thinking about adjacent problems.
§ 02 — Primitives
Five primitives.
Almost everything I build or write composes out of these. Recurring building blocks, not neat categories.
fig. 01 — primitives / topology05 nodes · 1 center
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Memory
What remains.
Meaning
What integrates.
Taste
What is chosen.
Agency
What is enacted.
§ 02.5 — Meta-layer06 · 01 node
Metacognition
The capacity to observe and redesign the system itself.
§ 03 — Notes
All notes →Latest notes.
- N-008 · 2025.11
After Optimization: Decision-Making in the Age of AI
When the machines optimize everything, the human edge is choosing what is worth optimizing for.
AI & Human Potential · 12 min - N-007 · 2025.10
The Understanding Gap
On the widening distance between what we can produce and what we actually comprehend.
Learning, Cognition & Metacognition · 9 min - N-006 · 2025.09
Ambition Is Socially Calibrated
You inherit the size of your dreams from the rooms you stand in. Choose your rooms.
Founder Notes · 7 min - N-005 · 2025.08
Why I Never Write Follow-Up Emails
A small refusal that turns out to be a worldview.
Founder Notes · 4 min
§ 04 — Systems
Full system map →In production.
Different expressions of the same inquiry.
SYS-01 · Understanding▮ Building
Synapi
A system for making understanding visible.
SYS-02 · Memory▮ Active
Roamed
The memory layer of travel.
SYS-03 · Music▮ Research
Tunemind
Music as cognitive and emotional technology.
SYS-04 · Belonging▮ Active
Cospot
An exploration of how place shapes connection.
SYS-05 · Writing · Rigor▮ Seed
Aurora
A system for sharpening intellectual rigor and content quality.
SYS-06 · Sensory · Identity▮ Research
Neuroaura
A multisensory design system for emotion, cognition, and identity.
§ 05 — Reading
On the desk.
A running index. I add things when they’re actually changing how I think — not just things I’d like to look smart for owning.
Full index →- R-001 · Book1941
The Garden of Forking Paths — Jorge Luis Borges
On libraries as cognitive infrastructure. A short story I return to whenever a system feels alive.
- R-002 · Essay2019
How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell
Attention as the last remaining act of resistance. The book that reframed beauty as a research method.
- R-003 · Paper2011
Neuroaesthetics: a coming of age story — Anjan Chatterjee
Why beauty is not decoration but a way of organizing trust, memory, and meaning.
- R-004 · Interface
Are.na — Charles Broskoski et al.
The only social platform I trust to make me smarter. A taste library that never raises its voice.
§ 06 — Open ports
If any of this is useful, take it. If you’re building near it, open a channel.
I read everything. I reply when I have something real to say. Specifics get answered faster than pleasantries.