Infrastructure for serious thinking.
I design systems that preserve human judgment inside increasingly automated environments — enabling organizations and builders to think at higher resolution.
External Cognition
Modern systems increasingly offload memory, structure, and decision flow. Most optimize for speed. Few preserve judgment.
My work focuses on building cognitive infrastructure — tools that extend human reasoning without surrendering agency.
The objective is not automation alone, but higher-order thinking made durable.
Selected Systems
Cognitive infrastructure and technical systems designed for durability, clarity, and operational reality.
Membrane
A schema-optional knowledge system for structuring unbounded information while preserving retrieval clarity.
FUR
Conversation control infrastructure enabling traceable interaction with language models.
Yggdrasil
Project codex engine that flattens complex codebases into injectable AI-ready artifacts.
Elaine
Reference architecture for generating structured LaTeX bibliographies through deterministic tooling.
Constructed Environments
Interactive computational worlds engineered to investigate structure, behavior, and cognition. These environments function as operational research — systems built to be explored rather than merely described.
Kodomata World
A hand-built automata environment investigating emergence, local interaction, and collective behavior. Designed as a live computational field where simple rule sets generate complex system dynamics.
On Titan
A spatial simulation set on Saturn’s moon exploring terrain, scale, and environmental constraint. Built to examine how structure governs movement, perception, and interaction inside navigable worlds.
Wormhole Chess
A hand-engineered non-Euclidean chess environment exploring paradoxical geometry and navigable topology. The system was later subjected to a controlled rendering study comparing the original architecture against multiple AI-generated variants to examine authorship, prompt mediation, and the boundary between engineered and synthesized systems.
Operating Principles
Structural rules guiding how systems are designed, evaluated, and brought into operational reality.
Structure determines outcome
Optimization cannot rescue a flawed representation. What you choose to model defines what becomes possible.
Clarity is a scaling property
Systems must remain intelligible under pressure. When understanding collapses, decision quality follows.
Regimes govern behavior
Conditions change. Durable systems account for structural shifts instead of blindly extending past signal.
Cognition must be externalized
Serious work exceeds biological memory. Tools should stabilize reasoning across time, teams, and complexity.
Fields of Practice
Domains where I operate with depth and architectural ownership.
Cognitive Systems
- —Knowledge architectures
- —AI-native tooling
- —Information retrieval systems
- —Decision infrastructure
Systems Engineering
- —Distributed architectures
- —Resilience design
- —Simulation environments
- —Complex system modeling
Technical Direction
- —Architectural strategy
- —Research-driven engineering
- —Institutional advisory
- —High-complexity problem design
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