Categories
40 essays across 5 canonical categories. Each category serves a distinct purpose in the portfolio narrative.
meta-system (21)
- The Solo Auteur Method
- What I've Done Is What I Am
- Why the Organ Model Separates Commerce from Theory
- Twenty-Six Sprints in Six Days: What the AI-Conductor Model Actually Looks Like
- Promotions in Practice: What We Learned Exercising the State Machine
- The Promotion Pipeline: From DESIGN_ONLY to PRODUCTION in an Eight-Organ System
- The Promotion Pipeline: From DESIGN_ONLY to PRODUCTION in an Eight-Organ System
- Registry-Driven Development: How a JSON File Governs 81 Repositories
- How This Was Built: AI, Compressed Time, and the Gap Between Documentation and Code
- Deploying the Portfolio: From 81 Repos to 9 Applications
- Bootstrap to Scale: How Artists Build Institutions
- Uniform Quality at Scale: How Every Repo Earns Its Badges
- Testing the Meta-System: CI/CD Across Eight Organs
- The Documentation-Implementation Gap: Honest Accounting
- From Bronze to Platinum: Quality Ladders for Creative Infrastructure
- AI-Conductor Methodology: Directing 270,000 Words of Documentation
- The Meta-System as Portfolio Asset: Why Application Reviewers Care About Orchestration
- How We Orchestrate Eight Organs Across 79 Repositories
- Governance as Creative Practice: Why the Eight-Organ System Exists
- Five Years of Autonomous Creative Systems: What I've Learned About Orchestration
- Building in Public: Radical Transparency as Creative Methodology
case-study (7)
- What It Takes to Ship a Product from Inside an Organ System
- Recursive Engines at Scale
- Generative Music Case Study
- Epistemic Tuning Explained
- Coaching Platform Metrics: Commerce Retrospective with Actual Numbers
- The Choreographic Interface: Designing Systems for Human Movement
- Aetheria RPG Post-Mortem: A Full I→II→III Pipeline Retrospective
guide (6)
- Performance-Platform Methodology: When Is Your Product Ready for Users?
- Constraint Alchemy: How Limitations Become Creative Fuel
- How to Think About Autonomous Systems: A Practitioner's Guide
- Governance Frameworks for Artists: Why Creative Practice Needs Institutional Thinking
- Why AI Function Calling Needs Ontological Grounding
- The Dependency Graph: No Back-Edges Allowed
methodology (4)
- Seed Contracts: Declarative Dependency in Multi-Repo Systems
- Provenance as Practice: Tracking 2,012 Files Across Eight Organs
- The Archive Paradox: Why Deleting Repositories Is an Act of Creation
- The Aesthetic Nervous System: How taste.yaml Cascades Across Eight Organs