Journal
Thinking in public.
Essays, dispatches, and notes on retrieval-first AI, degrowth as design, personal sovereignty, and pattern weaving. The same structures keep appearing across unrelated problems. Writing is how I track them.
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Everyone Has a Plane Essay
Strategic emptiness, affordance sensing, and relational activation. On finding the geometry of how you think. Still Point Poem
A poem to myself, borrowing from Atwood and Eliot, in case I forget myself in the future. Retrieval-First AI Essay
Why the future of AI products belongs to teams that treat human selection as the design constraint, not the afterthought. Pattern Weaver Essay
The declared-vs-inferred finding appeared in four unrelated domains. That is not a coincidence. It is a signal. Declare Your Frame Essay
A framework is not a theory. It is a bet. When you name the frame you are betting in, everything downstream clarifies. What I-O Psychology knows about human data that ML doesn't Essay
I-O has a hundred years of method on construct validity, inter-rater reliability, and adverse impact. ML is rediscovering the same problems under new names. In process
These ones are thinking out loud.
Degrowth as design A design practice where success is users needing the product less. Wise Move Protocol OODA and OFNR compressed into one decision loop. Five Verticals Diagnostic Trust, Context, Distribution, Taste, Liability. A diagnostic for where an AI product is actually weak. Sovereign Distributed Intelligence A topological thesis from the Gemma hackathon. Notion is the body, chat is the mouth Design principle for the Daily Driver Protocol: memory lives in the body, speech passes through the mouth. The Kọ́lọ́dé Experiment Blind study comparing English and Yoruba AI reasoning. Mirror People Transmedia cosmological framework built on unobservables. The ORÍ Declaration Seven digital rights for personal sovereignty.
These essays are not commentary. They are positions. Each one started as a pattern noticed across real work, a structural finding that kept showing up in different domains until it demanded a name.