I build instruments for sense-making, and write about what happens when you live inside them. The work runs under the Center for Applied Post-Phenomenology — postphenom.com.
Post-phenomenology asks what a technology does to perception. The Center makes that question practical: build the instrument, live inside it, write down what changed.
Everything here is local-first. No telemetry, no analytics, no third-party fonts or scripts. An instrument that reads your life reads it off your own disk.
Instruments
chronology— An interactive number line of a life's events. Structure, conjuncture and event as separate lanes.terra-cognita— An inner-life cartography instrument: a life as land, time as geology, bound to a timeline of events. · liveinteractive-venn-template— A hover-flood, cursor-reactive Venn diagram you configure in the browser. One file, no build. · live
Sites
postphenom— The Center for Applied Post-Phenomenology — the institution these tools ship under. · live
Sites
paramvaswani-site— The personal site. Artifact-format source, built to static by build.py — run it before any deploy. · live
Garden — the PKM loop
Tools
kiku— 聞く — paste a link, a file or the words themselves; hear it, on your own machine.
GitHub has no folders, so the structure is carried by topics:
| Topic | What |
|---|---|
capp-instrument |
Sense-making instruments |
capp-whitepaper |
Reproducible arguments |
capp-site |
Public surfaces |
personal-tool |
Things I built for myself |
personal-garden |
The PKM loop |
local-first |
Runs entirely on your machine |
Every repo carries an AGENTS.md whose first block says where that repo sits in the whole — its role, its local path, its live URL, its siblings. Generated, so it cannot drift from the truth.
This page is generated from projects.json in the private spine repo. Edit that, not this.