the IB years
i'm a junior in the IB Diploma Programme at Windermere Preparatory in central Florida. four higher levels — the limit is three for most people, but the schedule allowed it.exams are in May 2027. the summer between is open for research and building. i'll be at UChicago's pre-college session this June taking SOSC 20112 — Statistics for Social Sciences.
arguing positions i disagree with
four years of Lincoln-Douglas. i argue ethics and political philosophy under time pressure for fun.
range over polish
i do product work, research, organizational work, and client work — and i think in different registers depending on which mode i'm in. that range is the point.i'd rather undersell than oversell. i say “preprint” not “published,” “co-founder” not “ceo,” “1k downloads” not “rapidly scaling.” if something looks too clean or too marketed, it's wrong.
there's always something to do. sometimes it's the source of the anxiety — the feeling that i'm not doing enough. but more than that, it's a kind of comfort. don't worry. you always have the next thing to look forward to. don't wallow in it. prepare for it.— from a notebook, march 2026
the AI deal network
i wrote a working paper on circular investment networks in the AI industry — what happens when capital between AI, cloud, and semiconductor companies starts to loop back on itself.90 deals across 28 firms, 2022–2025. three metrics: Loop Score (two-party closed loops), Cycle Score (multi-party rings), Hub Score (centrality). 10 two-party loops, 178 multi-party cycles. NVIDIA ended up the top-ranked hub. validated against ~1,000 randomized null networks preserving degree sequence.
what's on my laptop right now
a slice of what i'm actively shipping outside of AGrader, BizBuild, and Brightlaunch (those have their own pages). small projects, mostly weird.
Spanish IB Individual Oral simulator built on the OpenAI Realtime API. Six custom rubric-aligned algorithms, anti-cheat, dual teacher/student dashboards. Built for a real IB Spanish teacher.
Bell schedule countdown for Windermere Prep — day-type detection, split-lunch toggling, GPA + finals calculators, exam countdowns. Shipped as a website plus a Chrome Web Store extension under Education.
Sub-$150 portable Raspberry Pi water-quality buoy: temperature (DS18B20), analog pH, turbidity (TS-300B), routed through an ADS1115 ADC. Designed for a Florida nature preserve. Public Instructable.
Curated digital art tutorial site organized into 7 skill categories. Custom design system, admin tooling, prompt-engineered curation pipeline.
stuff i actually use
an honest list of what's open on my laptop most days, not a buzzword stack.