North star

I build and study tools that expand human agency—especially across AI, education, and software.

The interesting question is not whether a machine can do more. It is whether a person can understand more, decide better, or act where they previously could not.

Questions I return to

1. ?How do we measure whether technology creates agency rather than dependence?
2. ?What should remain difficult, even when it can be automated?
3. ?How can education compound judgment instead of simply transferring information?
4. ?Which interfaces make complex systems feel legible without making them simplistic?
5. ?What can a small, unusually committed team build that a large institution cannot?

Three provisional positions

• Agency over automationThe strongest tools increase the number and quality of choices available to a person.
• Interfaces are argumentsEvery interface quietly claims what matters, what can be ignored, and what action should happen next.
• Education should create leverageLearning matters most when it changes what someone can independently notice, build, or decide.
• Build before brandingA tangible result is a better starting point for a story than a story waiting for a result.

Future writing

This page will become a home for longer essays, manifestos, and short notes. For now, it is intentionally a working surface rather than a pretend publication archive.