I am an applied mathematician, writer, and artist.I've spent 20 years at the frothy intersection of computation (aka AI) and domain science: advising companies and investors, founding data teams, a couple of big exits, starting my own company, teaching and developing curricula at universities like Berkeley and Michigan. I have a PhD from MIT, which I'll sometimes bandy around to fool people into thinking I know something about anything.I am interested in the limits, both mathematical and epistemic, of computational science. I'm a (sincere) satirist of Silicon Valley, and creator of the Silicon Valley Poetry Magnets. In the Kool-Aid Diaries, I chronicle Tech at its finest: I propose to send paleo-optimizers to ManCamp, dig into the rot of SF food culture, and decry Tech's utter lack of humor.I've designed and built three small homes in unique places. I am building a sculptural water clock at a river oxbow in Montana. I run a curated space of craft spirits and art in an old island gas station.As a writer my concern is the encroachment of the algorithmic lens on possibility, and on what it means to be alive (and wild, and human, and free). I wrote a book tracing the history of this encroachment. I'm writing another on how it's actually nothing to fear, for only we as humans can reach into the deep vital clay to transform the story, only life can create life. I am also writing fiction.back to cocofolio