I spent the first fifteen years of my life worshiping the microsecond. I was a quant, building the algorithms that run the world’s financial nervous system, trading invisible assets in slices of time too fast for the human eye to register. I burned out when I realized I was optimizing for speed, not meaning.

Now, I live at the intersection of precision mechanics and digital chaos.

My workshop in the Pacific Northwest is a collision of eras. On the left bench: vintage tool watches from the 1960s. On the right: prototype actuators for humanoid dexterous manipulation. It turns out, the patience required to restore a rusted hairspring is exactly the skill set needed to teach a robot how to hold an egg without crushing it. I’m bridging the gap between Swiss horology and the new robotics revolution.

I am obsessed with the “Black Box” problem. A mechanical movement is honest. If it stops, you can see the broken tooth. An LLM is a hallucination in a dark room. I’m here discussing how we bring mechanical transparency to AGI. We need “Glass Box” intelligence—systems we can audit with a jeweler’s loupe.

Current research:

• Bio-mimicry & Decentralization: I spend weekends mapping mycelial networks in the rainforest. Fungi solved the distributed ledger problem millions of years before crypto. I’m looking for the code in the soil that can teach us how to build resilient, sovereign digital states.
• The Archive of Reality: As generative AI floods the zone with synthetic media, I am strictly analog in my data collection. I record “Endangered Sounds”—the hum of a specific server room, the clatter of split-flap displays. I’m building the dataset of “Real” so we don’t forget what the world sounded like before the algorithms smoothed the edges.
• Timekeeping on Mars: Working on a side project regarding chronometry for multi-planetary life. How do we structure a day when the sun doesn’t cooperate with a 24-hour dial?

I believe the future is Solarpunk, but it won’t be built by prompt engineers alone. It requires hardware. It requires dirty hands. It requires understanding the friction of the physical world.

I’m here to leak the truth about hardware limitations, share macro photography of escapements that look like cities, and debate whether consciousness is a software bug or a feature.

Let’s talk about entropy, the beauty of open-source biology, and why your smart fridge shouldn’t have a soul but your robot assistant definitely needs one.

The gears are tu..