These are links to my personal projects as well as random stuff that i like or half started projects or ideas. Enjoy.
This is the working home of The Thread – a book, an academic paper, and a growing body of ideas built around a single question: who are you, really? Starting from a discovery in molecular biology that most people have never properly considered, the project connects evolutionary science, philosophy of mind, and the ancient wisdom traditions into a framework that takes seriously what serious people have been too quick to dismiss.
The academic paper is here. The book is being written. Everything starts with the fact that you contain two separate DNA systems – one human, one ancient bacterial – and what that means is stranger and more consequential than anything you were taught in school.
Context is everything. Without it, every fact floats free – impressive or terrifying depending on how it’s framed. There’s a certain kind of intelligence that comes not from deep expertise, but from breadth – knowing roughly how big, how fast, how far, how long.
Facts and figures give you a framework for the world. They let you hear something new and immediately place it: is that a lot? Is that surprising? Does that make sense? Specialists sometimes get so close to their subject they lose all sense of scale. This is a collection of the numbers and facts I think everyone should carry around in their head – not trivia. Anchors.
The peer-reviewed evidence on near-death experiences is more substantial – and more awkward for standard neurology – than most people realise. Verified observations during cardiac arrest. Consistent phenomenology across cultures and centuries. After-effects that persist and intensify for decades. This is not the “proof of heaven” literature.
It is an honest account of what the studies actually show, what the neuroscientific explanations can and cannot explain, and why the question of consciousness during clinical death remains genuinely open.