WhatsOnYourBrain™

What I Do

I move between software, writing, music, and teaching, but the center of gravity is AI—and the question of how symbolic structure, temporal patterns, and human-centered design can make machine reasoning more legible, useful, and original. That includes building websites, CMS-driven properties, and coding agents; it also includes exploratory work in neuro-symbolic AI, reinforcement learning, explainability, and synchronous human–AI interaction. The same systems-thinking approach that shaped my teaching and pedagogy now drives how I think about intelligence, pattern recognition, and the infrastructure we need to use and dream about AI responsibly.

Selected Highlights

AI and New Research Directions

I'm not content to only consume or integrate existing models. Much of my energy goes into exploration that opens new territory: neuro-symbolic methods, explainability, and formalizing approaches that make AI more legible and aligned. The work outlined in Symbolic Temporal Reinforcement Learning frames AI research through neuro-symbolic methods, computational musicology, temporal structure, and human–AI alignment—and reflects where my attention is now: explainability, structure, experimentation, and the possibility of naming and formalizing genuinely new methods.

Music and Performance

My musical work has included performance, songwriting, recording, and production. That history still informs how I approach rhythm, structure, collaboration, and even software design. A broader overview—including early recognition like the AMA/Coca-Cola New Music Award—is on MusicBrainz and at State College Guitar Lessons.

Teaching

Teaching guitar and music theory has been one of the most meaningful parts of my working life. Helping students learn, persist, and build confidence has probably had the most direct impact on other people of anything I have done professionally. My approach has long been rooted in systems-thinking: helping students understand architecture, intervals, structure, and recurring patterns rather than merely memorizing fragments. I build transformative.click (path-to-URL utilities, SPA preview, Annie De Browsa) and the interactive music tools at finga.studio—fretboard and piano trainer rooted in the same pedagogy. That thread is visible at State College Guitar Lessons and more explicitly in my teaching philosophy and pedagogy.

Software and Web Development

I still build practical software, developer tools, content sites, and web infrastructure, but increasingly in service of AI-oriented thinking and experimentation. Rather than duplicating that catalog here, the dedicated Projects etc. page is where the project inventory now lives.

Elsewhere

Code and open-source work on GitHub; music on SoundCloud; deeper AI and systems writing on DufoSPY; project inventory on Projects etc..

If you're here from an old bookmark or a long-standing link: same person, same curiosity and independent build. The difference is that the future we were promised is no longer tomorrow. I'm in it, and I'm more motivated than ever.