H+C / 06Published Works
I write to leave a thread I can return to.
Field Journal entries, essays, and technical articles collect research in motion without turning a working observation into a finished conclusion.
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Hearthside thought projection · review requestedI write to leave a thread I can return to.Read the working archetype →A field note does not need to finish the theory. It needs to preserve the question, the source, the useful distinction, and enough uncertainty for a later revision.
Field Journal / ported public archive
The public record, held inside the studio.
Published Field Journal entries are now read in the Hearth & Code research environment. The archive preserves article-level source context and claim labels; it does not expose private work or draft records.
- 01Read
14 min read
ESS: The Thread Between Thought and Action
A Hearthside orientation to ESS: a candidate framework for carrying provenance, meaning, and human authority across AI-mediated work.
- field-journal
- agentic-ai
- knowledge-systems
- provenance
- prompt-engineering
- ai-research
- human-agency
- 02Read
15 min read
A Hub That Can Explain Itself
An eight-stage practical journey for building a small provenance-aware layer around AI-assisted knowledge work.
- field-journal
- provenance
- governance
- agentic-engineering
- doctoral-research
- knowledge-systems
- human-agency
- 03Read
12 min read
The Hearthside Meta-Architect
A personal reflection on building a humane, governed workbench for nonlinear systems work.
- field-journal
- hearthside-meta-architect
- neurodivergent-builders
- exocore
- governance
- knowledge-work
- agentic-engineering
- 04Read
12 min read
When a Prompt Becomes a Small Charter
A first-person proposal for contract-driven prompting: clearer inputs, boundaries, and return paths for consequential AI-assisted work.
- field-journal
- prompting
- prompt-architecture
- structured-outputs
- human-review
- agent-workflows
- 05Read
13 min read
Every Claim Needs a Trail Back Home
A working tour of an Obsidian governance plugin and a design argument for keeping sources, projections, human decisions, effects, and correction trails distinct in AI-assisted systems.
- field-journal
- governance-lab
- obsidian
- provenance
- agentic-engineering
- human-gates
- correction
- 06Read
13 min read
Designing a Genre as a System
An N=1 field note on designing a music genre as a system: the Exocore cosmic-ritual concept, four movements, CORE+TWEAK budgets, metatag grammar, lyric craft, and the contracts that make the genre.
- field-journal
- exocore
- music
- songcraft
- suno
- ai-music
- cosmic-ritual
- build-in-public
- 07Read
10 min read
Prompting Became Procedure Design
An N=1 field note on how prompting moved from clever phrasing to procedure design: stored goal-prompt contracts, numbered bounded seams, agent-drafted charters, workbooks, and the contracts that become an intelligence layer.
- field-journal
- prompting
- context-engineering
- agent-workflows
- governance
- exocore
- human-agency
- build-in-public
- 08Read
17 min read
An Extended Mind Needs a Grammar
A first-person N=1 field note on returnable AI-assisted work, durable records, bounded context, provenance, and human authority.
- field-journal
- extended-mind
- cognitive-workbench
- knowledge-governance
- provenance
- ai-workflows
- exocore
- human-agency
- 09Read
10 min read
A Public Journal Begins With a Boundary
A note about keeping a public record honest: sharing methods, questions, and corrections without turning private work or one person's experiment into a general claim.
- field-journal
- public-projection
- research-practice
- agency
- n-of-1
- 10Read
10 min read
What I Mean by a Cognitive Workbench
A working account of a cognitive workbench: a person-owned place where records, decisions, and carefully bounded tools help someone find their way back to the work.
- field-journal
- exocore
- cognitive-workbench
- agency
- governance
- local-first