I am a person with too many ideas for his own good, a poor memory, and not enough time or organizational skills to properly file ideas. My hope is that this site will serve as a haystack of thoughts which I can periodically sift through, searching for an old needle rather than spending time creating a redundant one. If I spin a sufficiently intricate web of tags and cross-references, maybe the search won’t even be so difficult. With your help, Dear Reader, perhaps occasionally we can even make hay*.

Topics will include many of my Top Secret research/entrepreneurial projects, such as:

• Language learning apps inspired by (and for) my dissertation work on cross-situational word learning
• My attempt to create a reputation-based economy for a better world (egoBoo)
• Similar, but more specific rating networks I’m creating for political and science engagement
• Language acquisition modeling from a memory and learning perspective
• Spiking neural network models for sequential action learning, especially for robots performing everyday human tasks (my current work on RoboHow)
• Prescriptive Predictions: my attempt to synthesize the large amounts of news I read, and put an optimistic spin on them
• What I’m reading: for fun and pleasure

I’m not sure how my style will evolve: my current motivation is mainly to collect my thoughts, but if you find the ideas interesting but hard to understand, please drop me a note and I’ll make some posts more expository. Or better yet, we can meet up for a drink and scribble on napkins. I would of course appreciate hearing from you if you use any of my ideas, or want to contribute to their evolution (fighting the good fight is always more fun with collaborators!). Oh, and Derek Sivers explains why I think it’s fine to share my (brilliant :P) ideas: they’re nothing but a multiplier on how well they’re executed, and the sad reality is that I have too little time to execute many of them on my own.

*Please do punish me for bad and mixed metaphors.