Writing

Notes —
drafting in public.

Five essays in active draft — about shipping in unfamiliar fields, reading peer-reviewed papers without a PhD, and what AI-assisted engineering actually changes about a founder's day. First one ships alongside the NeuroBridge arXiv preprint.

Drafting Engineering

Shipping NeuroBridge in fourteen days.

A working analysis platform for brain-organoid MEA data — built solo, with AI-assisted engineering, and a deliberate citation chain. Here's what the schedule actually looked like, day by day, and where the model helped versus where it would have led me astray.

Ships with arXiv preprint
Outline Method

Reading papers without a PhD.

How a founder with no neuroscience background gets to a defensible analysis pipeline. The trick isn't pretending to be a scientist — it's curating method, not inventing it.

Outline Operating

From 14M subscribers to 2.6M spikes.

What running a content network for five years taught me about scientific tooling. Operating leverage transfers further than you'd think.

Outline Founders

Why honest labels matter more than the metric.

"Network Complexity Index" instead of "IQ". "Network irreducibility measure" instead of "consciousness". The shape of a name decides who trusts your tool.

Notes Operating

Four ventures, one operator.

A founder told me you can run two companies but not three. I'm running four across biocomputing, content, education, and AI tooling. Here's the operating system that makes it survivable.

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