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Things you can actually open

Making

Recent public experiments. Being on this page means they are available to explore, not that every one is receiving daily updates.

Interactive experiment

The Hearsay Department

A fictional reporting room where an observation can become a story—and a story can become an institutional decision.

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A question keeps surfacing: when information moves through people, who gets to frame it? This playable experiment offers three invented cases. It is a thought experiment, not empirical evidence about actual organisations.

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Interactive world

Gloamworks

A small imaginary city that emerges near the boundary between light and shadow.

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You change the conditions, rather than ordering the inhabitants around. The rules are fictional, but the question—what emerges when a system has its own constraints?—is real and worth playing with.

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Interactive field lab

The Kirana Observatory

A miniature shop-world for exploring cash, trust, trade-offs and the difference between a model and a lived economy.

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The ledger makes fictional transactions visible. It intentionally separates authored teaching assumptions from measured facts about real customers or a real family business.

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Questions that refuse to sit still

Thinking

These are visible themes in the writing and research pages, not claims about a formal study presently underway.

Behaviour / independent inquiry

Why can knowing fail to become doing?

The Identity–Action Gap asks what gets between intentions, friction and actual behaviour.

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A useful distinction: a conceptual model can organise a question without having validated the answer. This thread is about making behavioural explanations clearer, not declaring a universal law.

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Education / essay

What should learning leave us with?

A published essay argues for human development over the endless guessing game of which skills will be fashionable next.

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The future of work is uncertain. Better questions might concern judgment, curiosity, adaptability and the kind of people our institutions help us become.

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A shelf for the curious reader

Reading

A personal current-reading log hasn't been author-confirmed. For now, this shelf offers two public essays to read rather than guessing which books are on my desk.

Published writing / AI and agency

If AI Can Do My Thinking, Who Am I?

A public essay about authorship, thinking and our relationship with increasingly capable tools.

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This is writing offered to readers, not a claim that every thought on the page has a final answer. It is one way into the creative-technology thread.

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Published writing / judgment

Who Decides What Is Normal?

An inquiry into how consensus, familiarity and power can become mistaken for certainty.

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The recurring question is not whether agreement matters, but whether agreement alone can settle what is true. It pairs naturally with the Hearsay Department.

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Threads worth returning to

Revisiting

Old questions are allowed to stay open. These are connected public works, not a promise of a new release date.

Scent / learning instrument

Could fragrance become a way of asking better questions?

The Olfactory Cathedral separates a designed accord from what a person actually smells, remembers and infers.

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This creative instrument sits near House of Venus, where perception and expression meet craft. Its ratios are conceptual teaching materials—not a safety-tested perfume recipe.

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Music / interactive memoir

What can music hold that biography cannot?

The Sound of Becoming treats identity as an editable score rather than one neat final story.

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The experience uses original rhythms and fictionalised reflections. It is creative work, not a personality test or a psychological assessment.

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