Index · Writing

Writing

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

Research Books Art Essays & criticism Translation Data & experiments
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Research

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
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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Books

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
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
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Art & scripts

Memoir · screenplay Forthcoming 2026
The Doors Thud Shut
A memoir of growing up hearing to Deaf parents, with a screenplay version also written.
Memoir Screenplay CODA
Scripts
Caesar, Cheed, and other screen work
Original scripts and series work, backgrounded for now.
Screenwriting Speculative series Film
Album 2024
Renaissance
Hip-hop, classical, and jazz made into something fresh.
Music Lyrics Voice
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Essays & criticism

The Agonist · A Nietzsche Journal
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
Inorganic Thoughts
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
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
Co-written review
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
Mi Primer Bitcoin · Open curriculum
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
§ E

Translation

UC Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics
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
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Data & experiments

Data analysis
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 · 2021
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