My work has a through-line I didn't have the vocabulary to name for a long time:
my interests span epistemic infrastructure, deliberative and digital democracy,
knowledge organisation, graphs and knowledge systems, and collective and distributed intelligence.
You can see a WIP map of my research interests here.
When I returned to university in 2024, I began to find language and concepts for ideas I'd been thinking about since 2015. First I discovered the applied epistemology literature, and began to see a field that lined up with my long-standing interests around misinformation, trust, and the modern information environment. When I discovered the work of Audrey Tang, I began making connections between the tools I was building and the democratic infrastructure I was reading about - between measuring argument quality and creating the conditions for genuine deliberation.
Seven years of Amazon marketplace work taught me how commercial ecosystems are built: how they distribute value, create dependencies, and shape the behaviour of everyone inside them. That experience taught me to read systems - to notice how they're designed, who they serve, who they extract from, and how.
I'm systems-oriented, and drawn to building tools that bridge divides and make information clearer.
