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HCollaborateProblems that resist an easy answerScTutoringChemistry and physics, one-to-one or in small groups
Build in Public
BeDay 0The starter bundle for a Notion and Claude loop
Infrastructure
Li000_routerThe dispatcher: routes work to the right agent · no page yetNa101_factoryMints new projects and keeps the estate healthy · no page yetK102_pmPriorities, deadlines, and the shape of the week · no page yetRb103_brandThe visual language, and what it is for · no page yetCs104_stacksThe librarian: reading, research and memory · no page yetFr105_voiceOutward writing and dissemination · no page yet
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FeOrigins of LifeIron-sulfur chemistry at the start of things · no page yetOsTopomolA molecule drawn as one continuous fieldCu●Copper PhotoprintingPrinting with visible-light-sensitive copper complexes · held back – commercialAgDarkroom ExplorationsAnalogue photography and darkroom chemistry · no page yetAuReservedHeld for the mature end of the copper and silver thread · not builtSiPhotographyThe digital half of the photographic practice
Publications
NiRedox-neutral Ni-catalysed C-H alkylationACS Catalysis, 2022PdArtificial metalloenzymesChem, 2024PtNickel-catalysed photodehalogenationSynlett, 2021
Products
AlCennomaAn EdTech platform · no page yetGaIrisAn events platform, and what people do with them · no page yetIndocphiA writing companion, wired to a reference library · no page yetSn85Labsno page yetPb●GetMeLostA hardware navigation device: e-ink and MicroPython · held back – commercial
Poetics of Science
FCh.1 Story in ProgressThe paradigm shift is presentation, not mechanism · chapter in progressClCh.2 Trendy ChemistryPhotoredox rose on social legibility, not discovery · chapter in progressBrCh.3 Rewriting and RetoolingInstruments constrain the questions you can ask · chapter in progressICh.4 Retooling of LanguageNaming as compression; its 4b turns to decolonisation · chapter in progressAtCh.5 Poetics of SciencePoetry as the engine of scientific progress · chapter in progress
Philosophy
CLiterary BarcodesNames, dates and places read as a colour barcodeNThree SistersFinding guilds beyond maize, bean and squashTsDe/DisDecolonisation and displacement, out of Ch.4b · early
Essays & blog posts
LaAgainst the Editorial DefaultTeaching a machine to have tasteCeCreating Words in ChemistryWhy chemistry keeps inventing its own vocabularyPrA.I. “Art”Reflections on nature, science and AINdPeople in SpaceA photographic project about people in the framePmPolishing Your StoryFigure design, proofreading and critique
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HeLinkedInNeORCiDArare.naKrGitHubThe repos behind the buildXeNotion MarketplaceTemplates, starting with Day 0
