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AI/FRICTION/RELATIONSHIPS/MEANING
03/INTELLECTUAL ARCHITECTURE
REASONING & MODELS
The connections are the point.
I collect ideas from places that don't obviously belong together.
Statistics explains relationships. Software engineering explains identity. Ecology explains attention. Product design explains power.
This is where I keep the connections.
01/QUESTIONS
Things I keep returning to.
RECURRING INQUIRIES06 QUESTIONS
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ALGORITHMS/INCENTIVES/ATTENTION/BEHAVIOUR
“When does a tool stop serving human behaviour and start shaping it?”
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IDENTITY/ADAPTATION/AUTHENTICITY/SOCIAL SYSTEMS
“How much of what I call 'me' is actually mine?”
CONNECTED WRITING
CONNECTED MODELS
[04]
BELIEF/COGNITION/INFORMATION/PERCEPTION
“Why do intelligent people keep believing things reality has already disproved?”
CONNECTED MODELS
[05]
DATA/EMOTION/SURVEILLANCE/REPRESENTATION
“What gets lost when messy humans are compressed into clean data?”
[06]
PRESENCE/CONNECTION/MEMORY/RELATIONSHIPS
“What makes something feel genuinely human?”
02/MODELS
Ideas I keep reaching for.
The reasoning machinery connecting inquiry across writing and professional practice.
CORE REASONING LENSES10 MODELS
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SYSTEMS THINKING
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“What happens when changing one part changes the behaviour of the whole?”
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INFORMATION ASYMMETRY
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“What happens when one side knows or controls more than the other?”
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INCENTIVE DESIGN
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“What behaviour does a system reward, regardless of what it says it wants?”
[04]
FEEDBACK LOOPS
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“When does an output begin reinforcing the system that produced it?”
[05]
BAYESIAN UPDATING
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“What should new evidence make me change my mind about?”
IN WRITING
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VERSION CONTROL
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“How can something evolve without losing continuity?”
IN WRITING
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SIGNALING
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“What does an observable achievement actually prove?”
IN WRITING
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RELIABILITY
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“What must remain true when the system is under stress?”
IN PRACTICE
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DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“What else breaks when this changes?”
IN PRACTICE
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PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS
THE QUESTION IT ASKS
“When people disagree about outcomes, what makes a process still feel legitimate?”
03/TRANSFERS
Ideas get more interesting when they escape their original field.
MODEL TRANSFER SCHEMATICS07 TRANSFERS
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ──→ IDENTITY
Model: Version Control
A codebase can branch, experiment, merge and become a new version without ceasing to be the same project.
What if people work the same way?
TESTED IN ESSAYBranch-Switch-Merge↗
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STATISTICS ──→ RELATIONSHIPS
Model: Bayesian Updating
A rational model changes its belief when new evidence arrives.
Why are humans so reluctant to do the same with people they already know?
TESTED IN ESSAYThe Cached Reality↗
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ECOLOGY ──→ ATTENTION
Model: Trophic Cascades
Changing one variable in an ecosystem can alter everything downstream.
What if an algorithm can trigger a similar cascade through human attention?
TESTED IN ESSAYCrying Wolf Every Three Seconds↗
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PRODUCT DESIGN ──→ RELATIONSHIPS
Model: Dark Patterns
Systems can exploit information asymmetry, fatigue and friction to make leaving harder than staying.
Why does that architecture feel eerily familiar outside an interface?
TESTED IN ESSAYThe Relationship You Didn’t Know You Were In↗
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MACHINE LEARNING ──→ BELIEF
Model: Overfitting
A model can cling too tightly to old training data—or overreact to the newest observation.
Humans do both.
TESTED IN ESSAYThe Cached Reality↗
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PSYCHOLOGY ──→ PERSONAL BRANDING
Model: The Johari Window
A model designed to understand what is known and unknown about ourselves becomes a way to ask a newer question:
What happens when visibility and authenticity stop being the same thing?
TESTED IN ESSAYThe Cloak of Invisibility↗
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ECONOMICS ──→ EMOTION
Model: Unit Economics
Platforms benefit when human behaviour becomes legible, predictable and monetizable.
What happens to emotional complexity when predictability itself has economic value?
TESTED IN ESSAYMy Mind Is Screaming At Me But I Can’t Stop Scrolling↗
04/MAP
Everything connects eventually.
Select a domain or reasoning model below to inspect the shared intellectual bridges connecting inquiries in writing and execution in practice.
01 / SELECT DOMAIN
02 / SELECT REASONING MODEL / LENS10 CORE LENSES
ACTIVE REASONING LENSMODEL / SYSTEMS THINKING
SYSTEMS THINKING
“What happens when changing one part changes the behaviour of the whole?”
IN WRITING[2]
- Reality for One Please↗
Personalized feeds don't merely shape our opinions; they can make us inhabit different realities.
- Crying Wolf Every Three Seconds↗
How short-form media is changing our tolerance for narrative, attention, and emotional payoff.
IN PRACTICE[2]
- Amalgamating 26 banks into 11 in six months→
BANKING CONSOLIDATION
- Building an MSME banking platform from 0→1→
DIGITAL PRODUCT
05/AN UNFINISHED MAP
The map is incomplete.
It probably always will be.
Every new field gives me another way to look at the ones I already know. The point isn't to collect disciplines. It's to find the useful bridges between them.