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Five fields under active development. The work is building the instruments a field needs, not writing papers about it.

Research here means tools you can operate — a substrate you can read, explore, and interrogate, rather than a static finding. Five fields are open right now: one mapping the human mind, one mapping the machines we now think alongside, one holding my own discipline — computer science — as a single structure, one holding the craft that discipline keeps handing off without a spec, and one tracing the arguments that are still load-bearing 2,600 years after they were made.

Field 01 · Psychology & the mind

Mapping how conditions mask and amplify one another.

Neurodivergence and mood/anxiety conditions rarely arrive one at a time, and the lines between them are drawn by whichever instrument happens to be measuring. This field builds a substrate that holds the ambiguity of lived experience instead of forcing premature categories onto it.

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The Comorbidity Atlas
The field's core instrument — not a paper on comorbidity but a queryable research substrate: 15 conditions, 34 mechanisms, and 278 cited edges. Read it as a single document, explore the graph, or download the whole thing. It handles far more than overlap: shared mechanisms, masking, amplification, and the partial-definitional cases where two labels describe one underlying process.
Field 03 · Computer Science

The home field, held as one structure.

I'm a CS student — this is the discipline my degree lives in, and a degree hands you courses without the frame they hang from. This field builds that frame: a deliberate taxonomy of computer science, cut where the discipline actually divides and re-cut whenever it moves, treated as load-bearing structure rather than a list of topics.

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The Stack
The whole discipline read the way it is actually built — downward. Five strata from the human surface to the mathematics, 15 domains, 83 fields, 362 topics, all openable in place and any number at once. Artificial intelligence isn't a domain here: it was too large to mean anything, so it is three, and Language Models gets the nine fields the last three years earned it. Where two domains genuinely share an edge, the map names the seam instead of picking a side.
Field 04 · Interface Design

The field where the answer is a number.

Design is the one discipline here that a model cannot check its own work in — it has no eyes, and roughly nine-tenths of what passes between two people never reaches language at all. So this field is built as instruments rather than prose: live specimens with dials, and an exact figure underneath every one of them. It spans four surfaces — the browser, native macOS, the Mac App Store constraint layer that a Mac app may decline, and iOS, where it may not.

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Interface Design
Benches, not chapters. Each one puts a working specimen on a stage, hangs dials off it, and prints the resolved values — spacing scales, type ladders, easing curves, Mac window anatomy, touch targets, Dynamic Type — as a recipe that pastes straight into a prompt. It opens on the Sight Gap: the benches that turn something you can see into something a model can act on.
Field 05 · Philosophy

Not history. The arguments that are still load-bearing.

Almost everything worth knowing from Greece still applies unchanged, which is the reason to read it — not an interest in the past. Two things this field insists on. First, that a philosopher's transmission is a fact about them: Aristotle left a corpus, Socrates left nothing and reaches us through three witnesses who disagree, and calling both of them "philosophers" hides the difference. Second, that chronology cuts both ways — the thresholds that changed what a person could know, or be treated for, sit on the same axis as the thinkers, because a life is bounded by them. Serotonergic depression before 1987 was a life sentence and after 1987 is a prescription, and no amount of Epictetus closes that gap.

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The Deep Field
2,600 years on one chronology you fly rather than scroll. Every figure is a star whose brightness is how much of what they actually said survives, and by whose hand; the constellation lines are who read whom. Crossed by the thresholds — the press, Wundt's lab, chlorpromazine, fluoxetine, the web — each with a beam through the whole field, because everyone to the left of it lived without it. Set a birth year and the field answers what arrived too late. Every entry carries traced sources, each labelled with the epistemic claim it can actually support.