A builder's path
I've spent most of my adult life building things, businesses, systems, and infrastructure.
I started my first business as a teenager and have since built across multiple economic cycles, technologies, and geographies.
Over time, what interested me most was not individual success, but patterns. Why similar efforts produce different outcomes depending on structure. Why good people struggle inside systems that reward behavior misaligned with their values. Why technological progress often increases efficiency while quietly eroding trust and resilience.
This led me toward system design.
Why systems matter
Most guidance focuses on how individuals should behave. My focus is on how systems shape behavior in the first place.
- People respond to incentives.
- Institutions follow their governance.
- Technology amplifies what it is designed to optimize.
When systems are poorly designed, ethical and capable people are pushed toward dependency or compromise. When systems are designed intentionally, ethical behavior becomes sustainable rather than exceptional.
What I work on
My work sits at the intersection of economics, technology, and institutional design. It spans bottom-up community practice and top-down frameworks intended for policy and large-scale adoption.
This includes:
- Community-based, asset-driven economic systems
- Formal economic frameworks that translate ethical principles into institutional language
- Governance models for human-centered artificial intelligence
- Automation infrastructure that keeps humans in the loop
These efforts are intentionally interconnected and grounded in real-world constraints.
Orientation
The systems I build are designed to function independently of any single individual. They are meant to be adopted, adapted, and governed by others over time.
That orientation shapes how they are structured, documented, and evolved.
How to engage
People engage with this work in different ways. Some read and reflect. Some apply ideas within their own communities or institutions. Some collaborate on research, frameworks, or implementation.
What connects them is an interest in intentional system design and long-term resilience.
Closing
This site documents how these ideas connect, how they are implemented in practice, and how others might adapt them in their own contexts.
If you are building economic, technological, or institutional systems and care about human dignity and long-term impact, you are welcome to explore further.