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Design Notes

A place to think in public. Notes on institutions, family knowledge, cognition, and what AI carries — written between the research and the building, before the ideas are finished.

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If You Want the Public to Trust Science, Show Us You're Trustworthy

Going through the rigor of human-subjects research changed how I understand oversight. If science wants the public’s trust, we have to show that protecting the people who make our research possible still matters—even when those protections slow us down.

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After We Get In: What Accessibility Already Knows.

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Before You Deploy: Eight Questions for AI Builders

We all use AI systems now. Most of us build with them, write with them, or make decisions informed by them. But very few of us stop to ask what those systems carry.

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My Data Manifesto

I did not come to AI through a lab; I came through a waiting room. This manifesto is a call to architect systems

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Biological Psychology Says Otherwise

Someone told me to take the emotion out of it. Biological psychology says otherwise.

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Curiosity Built AI. Speed Took Over.

The intellectual foundation of AI was philosophical, not technical. We forgot that. Social impact work is the road back.

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Custom Everything, But Not...?

We customize coffee, clothes, and cars without hesitation. So why not education?

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The AI Divide Isn't What You Think

The real AI divide isn't between countries. It's between systems designed for the average mind and systems designed for the full range of human variability.