About
The Augmented Mind
A place to think properly about what happens to knowledge work when the machine stops being a tool and starts being a collaborator.
Most writing about AI is either breathless or dismissive, and almost all of it is short. Neither register is much use if you are actually trying to do the work — to build something, lead a team, or decide what your own craft should become.
These essays take the slower route. They assume the capability is real, assume it is not magic, and try to work out the consequences carefully enough to be wrong in interesting ways rather than vague in safe ones.
The recurring theme is displacement of scarcity. When producing an artefact becomes cheap, value moves to whatever remains hard: supplying context, exercising judgment, and recognising a confident answer that happens to be false. Most of what follows is an attempt to say something specific about that shift.
Current ventures
Avant-Garde Labs
Founder · Managing Partner
2021 — present · Austin, Texas
A venture studio building at the intersection of commerce and agentic systems — shaping how creators, consumers and commerce interact as software begins to act on its own.
Open Conjecture
Founder · Chief Scientist
2017 — present · Austin, Texas
A boutique AI consultancy turning SaaS platforms into AI-native products — integrating new capability without discarding the client relationships that made the platform valuable.
Research interests
Natural Language
- Continuous topic modeling
- Automated ontology construction
- Knowledge maintenance workflow
Computational Neuroscience
- Cognitive diffusion models
- Perception and visual processing
- Text comprehension
Computer Vision
- Scene understanding
- Semantic visual segmentation
- Computational style
3D & Augmented Reality
- Automated 3D reconstruction
- Dynamic scene in-painting
- Generative design
The Dispatch
New essays, infrequently.
One long-form piece at a time, sent when it's genuinely finished. No cadence promises, no roundups, no growth funnel.