About

Pretty much everything I work on comes back to the same question. How do mind, awareness, and information actually fit together? I've come at it from a lot of directions. Strategy and economics, AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology, philosophy, history, even a bit of physics, and a long contemplative practice. The strategy theory, the AI agents I build, the education research, the work on consciousness. To me they're all one question seen from different sides.

In practice, it shows up in a few different ways. I build AI systems hands-on. I run a company, Eisengard AI, where I led our pivot to an AI-first product and the build of the platform at its core. And I keep an academic research line going, mostly on how cognition shapes strategy. What runs through all of it is one habit. I go looking for the assumptions a field has quietly stopped questioning, and ask what still holds once the ground moves. That's what my academic work did to the behavioral premises under standard strategy models; it's what building AI systems forces on you in practice; and it's what I'm now pointing at markets and institutions more broadly. Lately it's come to a head in a formal model of how awareness forms and fails, the question I've been circling for twenty years, finally made explicit.

The contemplative side isn't separate. My interest in consciousness, through philosophy, the sciences of mind, and practice, is part of the same curiosity about cognition. It's why I spent time on the board of The Monroe Institute, a research institute working on consciousness.