Work

PROBLEM SPACE

Existing AI cannot reliably detect or respond to emotional states in conversation.

KEY INSIGHT

Emotion is not a category to detect—it is a texture to sense. AI must learn to feel the shape of a conversation, not just classify it.

PROBLEM SPACE

Ritual often becomes rote. It loses its power to transform because participants are performing it, not experiencing it.

KEY INSIGHT

Ritual is one of humanity's oldest interaction design patterns. It constrains action, assigns meaning to repetition, and encodes ethics in sequence.

PROBLEM SPACE

Policy failures persist not because they are unknown, but because they are temporally distant, abstracted, and emotionally diffuse.

KEY INSIGHT

Transparency is not moral unless it is embodied. Accounting systems fail when they remain abstract—they succeed when omission becomes uncomfortable.

PROBLEM SPACE

Most emerging-tech education fails by chasing tools instead of concepts, separating theory from practice, and teaching software without taste.

KEY INSIGHT

Teaching emerging technology is a UX problem. If the interface to learning is poorly designed, the future will be too.

PROBLEM SPACE

Most narrative systems assume linearity, authorship from above, and choice without consequence. This produces shallow agency.

KEY INSIGHT

Meaning emerges when systems remember what you did.