FINDING DIRECTION SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / ONLINE[ FIELD NOTES / THOUGHT + EXPERIMENT ]
Thoughts explored.
Ideas made real.
Finding direction through thought and experimentation.
Ideas at their natural length.
A thought can be forty words or four thousand.
THINKING
What I’m learning, noticing, questioning, and returning to.
Ontologies for AI Agents
A graph-backed ontology links facts through relationships an agent can query before it acts.
Borrowed Authority
Your browser session may give an AI agent more access than you intended.
One More Question
Digital convenience often leaves the customer carrying the burden.
The End of the Line
The system is responding, but no one is there.
Giving AI a Voice
AI can now hear hesitation, interrupt us, and respond to the way we speak.
Where to Look
AI has accelerated the build cycle. Every new option can make the user’s task harder to see.
Ikigai
A practical guide to purpose, activity, and the habits associated with a long, meaningful life.
Why We Need to Stop Talking Philosophically About AI
Ashley argues that AI raises the value of care, judgment, and presentation.
The AI Build Loop
Separate planning, execution, and verification so each model has one job.
Bringing AI Home
Local agent harnesses keep private context, permissions, memory, and execution under local ownership.
Harness Engineering
What recent research says about improving the system around the model.
Listening for Signals
Using metrics to track how ideas move through a system.
The Visual Language of Data
Bridging art and engineering to turn information into meaning.
MAKING
Experiments, prototypes, and things made tangible.
A Local Agent Harness
Keeping agent work local, supervised, inspectable, and connected only when the workflow requires it.
[ 02 ]PROTOTYPE · 02.14.25Album Art Display
Displaying album art for non-vinyl listeners missing the full album experience.
[ 03 ]OBJECT · 10.28.25Cassette Shelf
A wall-mounted shelf designed around seeing, choosing, and retrieving more than 100 tapes.