About This Work
Frameworks for understanding how unconscious systems shape conscious lives
What I'm Building Here
Frameworks for understanding how unconscious systems shape conscious lives. Analysis that connects luxury pricing strategies to app monetization models to media literacy—because the underlying incentive structures are the same.
This isn't a blog. It's not a portfolio. It's a laboratory where I build in public across apps, books, and music—all exploring the same core question: What happens when you choose to see clearly in a world designed for blur?
Background & Credentials
Stanford Economics degree. Published author examining luxury market dynamics (Conspicuous). Independent developer building apps with fair-pricing models (URLPixel, Mail Collectly, Orate, and others).
The cross-domain approach isn't dilettantism—it's the point. Pattern recognition requires seeing the same structure in different contexts. When you understand how luxury brands manipulate scarcity to justify price increases, you recognize the same dynamic in software licensing models. When you see how algorithms optimize for engagement over wellbeing, you spot similar incentive misalignments in education policy.
The Approach
I don't tell you what to think. I provide analytical frameworks you can apply to reach your own conclusions.
My non-fiction offers tools for thinking. My fiction explores what it means to be human inside unconsciously designed systems. My apps demonstrate fair-pricing models as alternatives to extraction.
This means you'll rarely find prescriptive conclusions. Instead, you'll get frameworks like the Incentive Quadrant (Me/Us, Now/Later), diagnostic tools for conversation breakdown, or analyses of how overcorrection cycles operate across domains—from parenting styles to educational methods to institutional responses.
How to Use This Site
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Subscribe to frameworks and analysis. Books and thoughts will be most relevant.
Topics: Incentive structures, rational dysfunction, overcorrection cycles, systems analysis
For Conscious Tech
Follow app development and fair-pricing philosophy. Apps and related thoughts.
Topics: BYOK models, open source philosophy, building in public, creator-friendly pricing
For Creative Work
Music and fiction exploring these themes from the inside.
Topics: Digital intimacy, AI collaboration, consciousness in algorithm age, systems through sound
For the Full Picture
Everything connects. The books inform the apps. The apps demonstrate the book principles. The music explores the emotional reality of living in these systems.
Most thoughts span multiple domains because that's how real work happens.
Why Apps, Books, AND Music?
Because the same patterns appear everywhere. Seeing incentive structures in luxury markets helps you recognize them in tech platforms. Understanding algorithmic manipulation in social media illuminates similar dynamics in political polarization.
Each medium serves a different purpose: Books provide frameworks and analysis. Apps demonstrate principles through implementation (fair pricing, transparency, user respect). Music explores the emotional and human experience of living inside these systems.
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Systems Translator for the Rationally Overwhelmed
That's the role I'm building toward. Not prescribing solutions. Not telling you what's right. Just helping you see the invisible architectures so you can make your own informed choices.
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