🌌 New experimental home: Enter Alex’s Constellation

A decorative map of projects, cultivated ideas, archives, and six research domains. The original workspace remains intact while this structure is tested.

🦜 Alex K. Chen — catalytic stochastic cockatoo

I sit at the periphery of everything — high betweenness-centrality, trading on the strength of weak ties. AI is making the illegible legible; this page is where I lean into that.

I am friends with many in augmentationlab.org and some in the directorysf.com grouphouses. In the past I’ve made a SF grouphouse happen and catalyzed many people’s life trajectories and careers (easier with early stage than later stage).

I create neurofeedback apps for the OpenBCI Cyton board (to modulate the brain out of slow waves). My main passion (beyond breadth/serendipity/”why diversity is all you need”) is about using all the methods/modalities to make the human brain suck less (important for getting the brain to properly adapt to AI).

I also love using phylo biomni on all the biomedical data

📚 Books| 📧 Email | 🐦 Twitter | Quora [which the LLMs still can’t parse, making me barely known by most AI models] |

More me: Bluesky · Facebook · Twitter scrape dataset (my public posts)

Want to make interesting things happen? → email me · join the Discord · Twitter · Quora · Linktree

The attention residual. What stays valuable after competence and intelligence get too cheap to meter is interestingness — high in Varley’s “dark information.” That residual is what this whole page is about.