About / The person and the path
The path
that led here.
A lifetime of questions. A convergence of experience. A deeper purpose.
The question underneath
How does a person come to know what is true for them?
I have been circling the same question for most of my adult life.
I didn't always have language for that question. It ran beneath everything I was doing.
For more than twenty years, my work has moved through technology, information architecture, UX, systems design, creative direction, project leadership, facilitation and human development. Alongside it ran another inquiry into consciousness, pattern, meaning, healing and the ways people come to understand themselves.
For a long time, those looked like different lives.
They aren't anymore.
The inquiry came first
The question was there long before the technology.
My deeper inquiry into human patterns began in 2008.
I wanted to understand what creates patterns in a human life. What changes them. How we come to know ourselves. Why we sometimes know something long before we can explain how we know it.
That inquiry eventually widened into consciousness itself.
I became interested in the places where psychology, intuition, spirituality and human connection overlap. Jung's collective unconscious. The patterns that seem to move between people. The enormous amount human beings communicate without speaking. The experience of knowing something before language arrives to explain it.
I don't pretend to have settled answers to those questions. They are questions I have lived inside for nearly two decades.
Alongside them ran another body of work that looked completely different: technology, information architecture, systems design, UX and the problem of taking enormous amounts of unstructured information and finding the architecture inside it.
For a long time, those looked like different lives.
Then AI arrived.
I did not arrive at this question through AI.
AI arrived at my question.
And suddenly I was looking at a technology capable of participating in language, pattern recognition, memory, meaning-making and human thought at a scale we have never encountered before.
AI may be new. The questions it raises about what it means to know are ancient.
That creates extraordinary possibility.
It also creates responsibility.
If AI is going to participate in how people think, make meaning, understand themselves and make decisions, then how that intelligence participates matters.
That is the territory I am working in now.
A WAY OF SEEING
Finding the architecture underneath.
Across nearly everything I have done, there has been a common thread: I look for what sits underneath the visible problem.
In information architecture, that meant taking enormous amounts of unstructured material and finding the relationships, hierarchies and structures inside it.
In systems work, it meant looking beyond individual events to the loops, dependencies and repeating patterns producing them.
In work with people, it meant noticing what repeated beneath the story: contradictions, patterns in language and behavior, assumptions, adaptations, and connections between things that initially appeared unrelated.
Different material. The same instinct.
I look for the pattern beneath the pattern.
That way of seeing now informs my work with AI.
A conversation produces words. A conversation over time can contain something more: recurring patterns, contradictions, shifts in language, unresolved questions, changing beliefs, and relationships between things that may have appeared unrelated when they first occurred.
I am interested in what becomes possible when intelligence can help us see those relationships more clearly without deciding for us what they mean.
The person behind Lamplight
The parts finally belong in the same room.
My work has lived at the intersection of two worlds for most of my adult life.
I have spent more than two decades working across technology, information architecture, UX, systems design, creative direction and the architecture of complex information.
Alongside that is a substantial multidisciplinary body of training, practice and research in human development, embodied and expressive practice, patterns of behavior and change, consciousness, meaning-making, and the ways people come to know and understand themselves.
These are not simply subjects I have studied. They are disciplines I have trained in, practiced, worked within and continued investigating across nearly two decades.
They may look like very different bodies of expertise. To me, they have always required something remarkably similar: staying with complexity long enough to recognize the patterns, relationships and underlying architecture that aren't immediately visible.
Lamplight brings those worlds together around a question that feels both new and strangely familiar: what happens when AI begins participating in the deeply human processes of thinking, knowing, meaning-making and understanding ourselves?
That is the territory I am exploring now.
Lamplight is where those parts finally belong in the same room.
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