Ambitious systems · Small, testable steps
I explore how software can give people more agency over attention, participation, and value—across AI tools, games, and experiments in how communities organize.
Selected work
Each project begins with a larger question, then narrows to something concrete enough to build, test, and learn from.
An independent experiment inspired by Noah Morgan’s 1986 roguelike Larn, built around a new question: what if a player’s choices and losses kept shaping the world after their character was gone?
A solo-directed space action-RPG experiment pursuing one larger fantasy: start with a small ship and one weapon, then fight, collect, scrap, craft, and expand it into something overwhelmingly powerful.
A local-first coding agent that makes tool use, memory, model behavior, and failure recovery understandable and controllable by the person running it.
An invite-only goal planner that turns ambitious projects into manageable daily actions while preserving momentum, privacy, and user control.
Also in motion
Other systems exploring movement, learning, and useful decisions.
An aquaponics learning simulation where experiments and farm layouts persist across sessions.
Demo verification pendingA practical tool for turning complicated Path of Exile market information into clearer trading decisions.
View sourceAn idea evolving
This question has appeared across several unfinished experiments. The mechanism changes; the concern underneath it remains.
Earlier prototype
Give every person one movable pointer of attention. Direct it toward a cause or entrust it to someone whose judgment you value. Make collective priorities visible without manufacturing an infinite feed.
Attention as deliberate directionGame-world experiment
Let participation leave something behind. A lost character still changes monsters, places, resources, and the experience of players who arrive later.
Participation as persistent valuePlatform research
Replace an advertising system that captures attention with a transparent exchange in which creators and other contributors can receive value directly.
Attention as participant-controlled flowAcross all three, the goal is not to turn every human action into money. It is to stop treating attention and participation as free raw material—and ask what it would look like for people to control where those things go and share in what they create.
How I work
I’m drawn to questions that are too large for one feature or one release. The work is turning that ambition into a bounded experiment without losing the reason it mattered in the first place.
Who has agency, what behavior is rewarded, and where does the value go?
Reduce the vision to a version that can exist, be used, and teach me something.
Look for capture, exclusion, unintended control, and the gap between the idea and lived reality.
About
My path includes teaching, environmental organizing, restaurant management, marketing, and years of learning software by building things. It left me interested in the rules beneath our tools: what they make possible, what they reward, and how they shape the people inside them.
I keep returning to agency, consequences, participation, and shared value. Software gives me a way to turn those questions into systems people can inspect, challenge, and eventually use.
Build toward something larger
I’m interested in product-minded software, AI tooling, automation, developer tools, games, and teams willing to question how the underlying system should work.