Essays
Long-form pieces on markets, systems, and the marginal cost of reasoning. Many apply the principles behind custom decision engines— repeatable logic, clear criteria, and defensible numbers. Drafts may evolve.
Definitive guides to specific problems, not just updates. If you want to go deeper on error handling, TCO, or evaluation frameworks, start here.
Selective Pressurized Fractionation of Non-Wood Lignin into Reactive Aromatic Polyols
A public technical disclosure of a two-stage process that isolates low-polydispersity, low-ash aromatic polyols from sulfur-free agricultural black liquor—without oxypropylation—and routes the insoluble fraction toward hard-carbon anodes.
Read more →Unifying Flow and Shocks: The Dual-Representation Siamese TWE Architecture
Bridging smooth trajectories and sharp shocks. DR-S-TWE superposes continuous and discrete time-series encodings via a surprise-sensitive neuromodulatory gate.
Read more →If It Costs 3x More, It's Not a Transition
When the premium is 200–300%, the material is not a transition technology; it is a niche luxury. The transition won't happen because we guilt procurement into paying more. It will happen because we show the sustainable choice is finally the logical one.
Read more →The Marginal Cost of Reasoning
The primary function of AI is the radical reduction of the cost of cognition. We are moving from a world of scarcity in analysis to a world of abundance.
Read more →Markets Solved the Wrong Problem
Markets are efficient, but only at optimizing the variables we price. The work now isn't moral persuasion. It's making previously externalized constraints legible and economically actionable.
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