Wikipedia origin
At 14, building Wikipedia structures and watching human behavior fill them. The pattern — build a structure, watch it fill with chaos, try to keep it true — formed before there was language for it.
How the work evolved over time
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Same method, different scales
From RNA binding curves to institutional mechanics. At each level: map where things stall, identify the barrier, design the intervention.
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Scroll Range
2004 → 2025
Main visual
Evolving journey map
Visual shift
Wikipedia edits → lab work → care teams → institutions
Main challenge
Human chaos → stalled reactions → workflow drag → financial risk → admin burden
Interaction
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Five stages, one method.
The same approach applied at larger and larger scales.
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2004–2009 · Origin
Building structures, watching them fill
Wikipedia edits seeded a structure; classmates filled it with human behavior. The pattern formed before there was language for it.
Example: PRHS page seeded from a throwaway account at 15, filled with real content at 16 — then classmates added disciplinary incidents, breathalyzer stories, and a college list edit war.
Main signal: what happens when a structure meets human behavior.
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2010–2014 · Molecular
Energy landscapes and binding curves
In Roger Wartell's lab at Georgia Tech, I modeled RNA folding — thermodynamic inhibition in sRNA regulatory networks — and published first-author in an ACS symposium at 19.
Example: free energy barriers that determine whether a reaction proceeds or stalls.
Main signal: binding energy and activation barriers.
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2014–2019 · Clinical
Workflow drag in care delivery
From Epic implementation to Doximity Dialer — reducing alert fatigue, designing fallback workflows, and building a caller ID system that had to work in the worst moments: a clinician calling a family with bad news.
Example: Verified caller ID, carrier-spoofing protections, and fallback workflows for missed connections. Zero to 300K+ clinicians.
Main signal: time-on-task, repeat work, and trust under peak demand.
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2019–2023 · Defense
Guardrails for frontline clinicians
CancerCompass nursing feedback loops. Transcarent unified member record across surgery, maternity, fertility, and MSK. Co-founded Andwise with a 60-member medical advisory board.
Example: translating clinical protocols into plain-language steps, building decision architectures that made fiduciary and compliance constraints concrete.
Main signal: exposure, volatility, and loss.
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2023–2025 · Institutional
Policy-scale burden and civic mechanics
Ethotechnics: mapping burden transfer in algorithmic systems. The Crumple Zone: essays on coercion, system failure, and the moral physics of automated systems. Whether: translating macroeconomic signals into operational guardrails. NextConsensus: Claim Stability Briefs for disputed healthcare claims.
Example: the same method — map where things stall, identify the barrier, design the intervention — applied at institutional scale.
Main signal: bureaucracy, compliance load, and evidence-policy gaps.
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Stages
At a glance
What to watch at each stage
- What mattered most Binding energy
- What slowed progress Activation barriers
- What changed Entropy shift
Scale
Tiny scale (Wikipedia edits)
Main challenge
Structure meets human chaos
Current stage
Origin (2004–2009)
2004: First Wikipedia edit. Building structures before knowing why.
Quick summaries
Molecular research
In Roger Wartell's lab at Georgia Tech, modeling RNA folding and thermodynamic inhibition. First-author in an ACS symposium at 19. Same question: where does the reaction stall, and why?
Clinical friction reduction
From Epic EHR implementation to Doximity Dialer — reducing alert fatigue, designing fallback workflows, building caller ID that had to work in the worst moments.
Systemic defense
CancerCompass nursing feedback loops. Transcarent unified record across surgery, maternity, fertility, and MSK. Andwise with a 60-member medical advisory board.
Institutional mechanics
Ethotechnics, The Crumple Zone, Whether, NextConsensus. Mapping burden transfer, designing guardrails, closing the gap between evidence hardening and policy.