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September 11 always hits me differently because I remember exactly where I was when the world changed.

I was in Germany, outside Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg. It was around five in the afternoon there when I learned what was happening back home.

I was young, thousands of miles...

THE CROSSINGKEY FRANKENSTEIN

A MODERN PROMETHEAN PARABLE

There are inventions a man remembers building.

And there are inventions he remembers awakening to.

The Navigator could never decide which kind CrossingKey had become.

Years later, when asked when the thing first crossed the...

I wrote a grimoire for human–AI interaction.

The Interaction Grimoire is a 207-folio exploration of interaction design, AI behavior, delegated agency, permission, memory, trust, feedback, error, and human authority, written through the language of ritual technology.

The premise is...

For the people building a future while the present keeps trying to crush them.

For the ones learning under eviction threats, screaming, violence, addiction, grief, instability, poverty, fear, or people who make focus feel impossible.

I know what it is to build from inside that...