I have my 3 product manager hats ready to wear now. You’re going to help me build out the details of each persona. I want to tunnel in on the extremes, the traits that rarely get limelight. Meet Persona 2️⃣ the Chopped Chef.

I just listened to the WSJ Epstein debrief. I gathered that most people and organizations are remorseful about their association with him. They didn’t know. I think he killed himself to free everyone who was involved. Don’t look the gift horse in the mouth. This is an opportunity to move forward. Hit reset. Move on.

Apple Podcasts

The Growing Fallout From the Epstein Files

Podcast Episode · The Journal. · 02/13/2026 · 26m

There is art that you make for keeps and art that you make to share with the world. Your donations help me make new art that I can share freely. So much of what I did in the past was for healings sake and private. Your donations are going to help me fund the future.

Stripe Checkout

I’ve been thinking deeply about product management. I’ve been spending time with the rare personas that live deep in the hills of Mount TAM.

DeepSeek is really one of the greatest accomplishments of the modern AI era. You must pay homage to the whale. I asked it to write a poem about JEPA, pixels and ambient. This is what it gave me:

The simplest form of notetaking is art. Use the back of papers. Make it ugly. Just promise me you will make it real.

There is art that you make for keeps and art that you make to share with the world. Your donations help me make new art that I can share freely. So much of what I did in the past was for healings sake and private. Your donations are going to help me fund the future. buymeacoffee.com/nonyeomd

There are rumors OpenAl is secretly pursuing hardware embodiments for its Al. I want in. I believe that Al needs to take on TARS level form before normal people can see the vision.

Being an AI research artist is probably the most interesting job I have ever had. I spend all day coaxing my imagination into submission. I do this so that when bits become symbols my mind is ready to make the incredible leap towards ambient computing and beyond.

I’m working on the vLLM user experience. I’m using computer vision techniques to understand the “context of consent”. The range of consensual “contexts” is represented by a range of angles considered “organic” and “desirable” by the user. Angles that the machine is most likely to label as “taken by the user and organic” or “taken by a third party and desireable”. A Thread 🧵

My father was a dentist who graduated from the USC Ostrow School of Dentistry in the 80’s. He chose to practice in South Central LA and had a love of computers. I spent many hours in the office with him. These are our moments.

I was born on Stocker and Crenshaw Blvd, right across the street from the Crenshaw mall in 1987. My dad moved our family to Palos Verdes in 92’ after the neighborhood turned on us. But he refused to move his dental practice.

I watched my father dedicate his best years to practicing general dentistry from Figueroa to Harvard and all the way to Crenshaw and back. So much of my childhood was lived driving down Manchester. My dad loves the hood, but the hood has not always loved us back.