Index · Writing

Writing

A peer-reviewed paper on the epigenetics of play, books and curriculum, essays on Nietzsche and Bitcoin, and older experiments.

Deaf, sign, family Biology Philosophy & classics Bitcoin & policy Music Earlier experiments
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Deaf, sign, family

Memoir · screenplay Completed 2025 · forthcoming 2026
The Doors Thud Shut
A memoir of growing up hearing to Deaf parents, with a screenplay version also written. The book interleaves a CODA childhood with the founding of a video relay company.
Memoir Screenplay CODA
Essay Early memoir material
A Bridge to Understanding: The Life of a Child of Deaf Adults
The essay that became the memoir. On inheriting two worlds and belonging fully to neither.
CODA Memoir Personal essay
Published book · English & Arabic 2023
Introduction to the Ethics of Sign Language Interpreting in the Middle East
The first work to detail ethics for sign language interpreters in the Gulf, Levant, and North Africa. Drawn from a decade of teaching and mentoring in the region, with Jaber Al-Kandery and Bader Al-Dookhi. 14,000 words, bilingual, with exercises.
Deaf studies Ethics Arab world Bilingual
Eastern Psychological Association 2015
I Can See You: On the Impact and Efficacy of Video Telephony as Understood by Interpreters for the Deaf
Poster research conducted at Georgetown and presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, 2015. On what interpreters notice — and miss — about the effects of video relay on Deaf communication.
Poster Georgetown Interpretation
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Biology

Biological Reviews February 2026
Methylation and merriment: an exploration of epigenetic mechanisms underlying play behaviour
A review of how epigenetic mechanisms — DNA methylation chief among them — may regulate play behavior across taxa, looking at different forms of play, domestication as a lens on play, and the neurobiology and adaptive fitness (or lack thereof) of playful behavior. Co-authored with Ignacio Baselga-Carretero. DOI: 10.1002/brv.70142.
Peer-reviewed Epigenetics Play behavior Behavioral biology
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Philosophy & classics

The Agonist · A Nietzsche Journal 2021
Story As Self: What Story is for Nietzsche
If there is no stable core or substantial self "behind" or "before" our deeds — if the self lies within the deeds themselves — what then holds together the temporal story of a subject's manifestations and transformations? An essay.
Nietzsche Philosophy Selfhood
UC Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics 2015
Ecclesiastes, Chapters 9 & 10
The first known attempt to translate part of Ecclesiastes into English iambic and trochaic pentameter, reflecting — in part — the musicality of the Hebrew.
Translation Hebrew Scripture Verse
Co-written review 2022
Open Mind Control: A Review of Human Compatible
A review of Stuart Russell's Human Compatible, co-written with a friend. On how to make AI benefit humanity, some implications of Russell's thinking, and a few further solutions.
AI alignment Review
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Bitcoin & policy

Published book · co-edited volume 2024
National Security in the Digital Age
Co-authored and co-edited with thinkers in the Bitcoin space, considering Bitcoin's role in protecting U.S. national security. Endorsed by Senator Cynthia Lummis, Lyn Alden, and others.
Bitcoin Policy Statecraft
Bitcoin Magazine 2023
Bitcoin vs Marx: Two Competing Geopolitical Theories
On the similarities and differences between Bitcoin and Marxism, and the futures they promise — with attention to the teleology each presumes (granted that Bitcoin's "teleology" is built in real time by its maximalists rather than written into the code).
Bitcoin Political theory Marxism
Mi Primer Bitcoin · open curriculum 2022
The Bitcoin Diploma
A ten-week open-source curriculum I helped design and write for Mi Primer Bitcoin in El Salvador. I was one of four writers of the first draft, and the second most prolific writer of that version.
Curriculum Bitcoin Education El Salvador
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Music

Album 2024
Renaissance
Hip-hop with classical and jazz-inspired textures.
Music Lyrics Voice
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Earlier experiments

Data analysis 2022
Beautiful Data from Reddit's Am I The A**hole Subreddit
An analysis of r/AITA — what Redditors consider genuine a-holery — with an aside on the limitations of machine learning for social judgment.
Data Reddit ML
Experiment 2022
GPT-2's Thoughts on Your Relationship
A modified GPT-2 giving relationship advice, with an analysis of its answers and a 2021-era theory of why the model falls short of being genuinely helpful.
LLM Experiment Relationships