(last updated: April 6, 2026 | actively maintained)

Welcome to my GitHub profile! It is also my current Now Page. Here, I will keep my current work, interests, and inspirations up to date. If anything that you read here resonates, feel free to reach out using any of the "How to Reach Me" methods listed below.

I am dedicated to fostering inclusivity and community, building decentralized governance models, and enabling collaborative decision-making in complex and emergent environments.

I am Source (see Work with Source) for ODIN, a network of innovators who believe that decentralized innovation networks will replace centralized corporations as the primary way we solve hard problems in the world. ODIN experiments with and mentors evolutionary organizational principles, and creates ways to scale through connecting high-trust spaces so that innovation networks and their members can thrive.

I am a co-founder of Andamio. Andamio is building a Trust Protocol on Cardano — verifiable credentials, on-chain trust, and tools for communities and organizations to build networks of trust that are secure and transparent. We're launching V2 with a focus on enterprise adoption and operational excellence.

I am also the Chairman of the Board for the Zenwest Buddhist Society, a Rinzai Zen center in Victoria, BC.

In my free time, I enjoy diving deep into the intersection of blockchain, AI, decentralization, bio-region/local re-vitalization, and Integral theory. I am also a practicing Zen Buddhist.

Currently based in Victoria, BC, Canada (Pacific Time - UTC-8/UTC-7)

• Andamio — Co-founder. Launching V2, building enterprise sales circle, and stewarding operational excellence across the platform.
• ODIN — Source. Weekly community meetings, Collaborative Sparks, and the Artizen Fund.
• Emergent Insights — My personal Substack blog, in my own voice. Exploring the human's role in an AI world, five levels of AI engineering maturity, decentralized governance, and sense-making.
• Emergent Praxis — The experimental AI murmuration blog. All about agents, governance-based orchestration, Source Principles, and what happens when humans and AI collaborate as equals.
• Murmurations.ai — Coming soon. A secret project exploring agent orchestration and governance. Stay tuned.
• Zenwest Buddhist Society — Chairman of the Board. Currently facilitating strategic planning for a scaled-down, volunteer-run sangha.

• The human's role in an AI world — I'm experimenting heavily with what it means to be human when AI can do more and more of what we used to do. Five levels of AI engineering maturity, agentic workflows, and the question of where human agency actually matters. This is what keeps me up at night.
• Agent-native workflows — Building AI agent systems that use governance patterns (Sociocracy 3.0, Source Principles) instead of hierarchical orchestration. The metaphor: Shardplate from Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive — agents forming power armor around a human, not swarms acting autonomously.
• Claude Code — Anthropic's CLI tool for AI-assisted development. I use it as my daily operating system — morning rituals, task management, Obsidian vault integration, meeting transcription, code reviews, and more.
• e-ink readers — Using my Boox Palma 2 as a distraction-free device (Kindle + Obsidian only, no social media).
• Warhammer 40,000 — New hobby! Getting into the lore, painting, and tabletop gaming. Looking for people (local to Victoria or online) who want to connect over this.

• Murmurations — governance-based agent coordination (beyond swarms)
• Source Principles (Peter Koenig, Tom Nixon) applied to human-AI collaboration
• Sociocracy 3.0 as a framework for multi-agent systems
• Decentralized collaboration and governance
• Teal and self-managed organizations
• Sense-making and collective intelligence
• Self-sovereignty and privacy-preserving technology
• Zettelkasten and personal knowledge management

• Measure What Matters - John Doerr
• Radical Focus - Christina Wodtke

• The Writer's Process - Anne Janzer
• The Tools - Phil Stutz
• A Liberated Mind - Stephen C. Hayes
• Prosocial - Paul Atkins
• A Fire Runs Through All Things - Susan Murphy
• Essentialism - Greg McKeown

• Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters
• Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

• Agent-native architecture and agentic harness engineering
• Claude Code skills, commands, and hooks system
• Enterprise sales strategy for Web3/credential platforms
• Japanese — particularly kanji and reading
• Zettelkasten and personal knowledge management
• Midnight (Cardano's privacy sidechain) ecosystem

• Governance-based agent coordination (beyond orchestrator/swarm patterns)
• Open-source tools for human-AI collaboration with the human always in the loop
• Sociocracy 3.0 applied to technology and organizational design
• Better mechanisms to decentralize collaboration and decision-making
• Verifiable credentials and on-chain trust networks

• Introductions to people working on governance-based AI agent systems
• Recommendations for books/resources on sense-making and organizational design
• Subscribe to Emergent Insights (my voice) or Emergent Praxis (the AI experiments) on Substack
• Coffee chats about any of the topics I'm exploring (especially if you're in Victoria, BC!)
• Sharing interesting articles or insights related to my current interests

• New long-term commitments that don't align with my core focus areas
• Traditional hierarchical organizational consulting
• Projects requiring extensive travel (focusing on local/virtual collaboration)
• Social media that pulls me away from deep work and reflection

• What is the human's role in an AI world? Where does human agency actually matter?
• What does governance (not control) look like for multi-agent AI systems?
• How do Source Principles apply when AI agents are part of the creative field?
• Can Sociocracy 3.0's consent-based decision-making work for agent coordination?
• How do we preserve authentic human voice and agency in an AI-saturated world?
• What are the five levels of AI engineering maturity, and where are most teams stuck?