RESEARCH, TOOLS, WEBSITES & BRANDS

Selected Projects

The research systems and apps I build, alongside the brands and websites I make for clients.

AppmacOSData visualization

Vault Map - Knowledge Atlas

A private Mac app that turns 23,061 notes from 8 Obsidian vaults into one map you can fly through.

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INSIGHT

The Brush Group: Why the Brain Science of Inspiration Favors Making

A popular science video lists what happens in your brain when you look at creative work. I read the studies behind each claim. Every one exists, and almost every one is stretched by a single step, always in the same direction: credit that belongs to making gets moved onto looking. The best-supported result in the video belongs to a group of retirees who spent ten weeks learning to paint.

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AppTaxonomyInformation design

Visual References - Technique Taxonomy

9,137 of my 9,176 visual references, mapped to 97 techniques that explain how an image holds the eye.

FEATURED

Ascensi HR - Website Redesign

A custom website for a recruitment and HR agency, with a clear path for companies and candidates and job listings the team runs on its own.

Web DesignHR

Ascensi HR - Website Redesign — case study

EditorialIdentityWebsite

Eleleth - Editorial System

A research wiki turned into a publication: essays, a live map of the notes behind them and a generative Sigil Engine.

ResearchAuditInformation design

Launch Trust Audit - Bitcoin-Adjacent Project

A paid, anonymized audit of how a technical crypto project read to skeptics before launch. The team implemented a large share of the fixes.

AppResearchLocal-first

Transcript Desk - Video Research

Paste a link, get a timestamped transcript, a summary and the claims worth checking, in a searchable library on your own Mac.

AppResearchEncryption

Epinoia - Research Rooms

Private rooms where a few researchers think together, each with their own AI beside them and everything encrypted in the browser.

ProductComputation enginesVisualization

Oroiael - Astrology Platform

A free site with instruments for five symbolic systems, designed and built end to end, running entirely in the visitor's browser.

AppmacOSOpen source

Glyph - Markdown Editor

A native markdown editor where you type directly on the formatted page, with no vault to set up. Open source, on Mac, Windows, Linux, the browser and your phone.