MyAgent
An AI chatbot that answers questions about my background, experience, skills, and project work — deployed on Hugging Face Spaces and embedded into this site.
Writing
My writing on topics that interest me.
The Agent I Didn't Mean to Build
A week-long detour into building a chatbot for my career page that became something else — and what it suggests about the shape of the web to come.
nanochat: Mid-Training Personality Conditioning and the Question of AI Identity
What happens when you stop prompting a model to behave a certain way and start building that behavior into the model itself.
The Substrate Problem
On legacy knowledge management, the limits of RAG, and what healthy compression looks like for the knowledge worker in 2026.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the systems that make emerging capabilities usable in high-consequence environments.
Integration
Connecting systems, data, and organizations so they work together reliably.
RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation — grounding language model output in retrieved evidence rather than parametric memory.
RMF Assistant: Evidence-Grounded AI for Policy Q&A and Control Gap Analysis
UMBC Data Science capstone, Spring 2026. Demo-ready.
Sometimes I Side Quest
Thoughts on software development, buy, vs build, and integration.
How I Think
I believe technology is never neutral. Here's how I think about systems, judgment, and human agency—and why I value rigor over novelty.
Related: PhilosophyAbout
Knowledge Management
My knowledge workflow is inspired by Zettelkasten—linked, atomic notes in Obsidian, published via a custom Astro pipeline.
Atomic Notes
Small, single-purpose notes that capture one idea clearly—the building blocks of a Zettelkasten-style knowledge system.
Related: InformationKnowledge Management
Astro
Astro is a modern web framework for building fast, content-focused websites with islands architecture and minimal JavaScript.
Information
Thoughts on information, data, knowledge, and how we process and use information.
Systems
Thoughts on systems thinking, complex systems, and systems design.