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Cody Hergenroeder
Systematizing human flourishing. Abundance engineer, tools-for-thought builder, first-principles thinker. Stanford Symbolic Systems.
- education
- stanford university, B.S. symbolic systems
- office hours
- book me
- contact
- cody@codyh.xyz
me, briefly
- Stanford Symbolic Systems '22, concentration in Computer Music
- Previous: Head of Product at Ideaflow
- Pragmatic anti-traditionalist, rigorous epistemologer, first-principles thinker, definite optimist, tools-for-thought builder, AI researcher, tpotter
- Threw a multisensory rave as my capstone project
- Dream Job: Abundance engineer, designing for human flourishing
projects
I believe: building for yourself => building for others.
consumer software
- YouTube Playlist Search: 'save to playlist' that actually works for lots of playlists
- Spotify Notes: take notes on music for DJ library curation
- Webpage Summarizer: summarize just the highlighted text
developer software
- create-claude-plugin: build, test, & publish claude code plugins end-to-end
- create-chrome-extension: build, test, & publish chrome extensions end-to-end
more in development on github
resources
what i'm doing now
- Currently in the process of making myself legible to the world
- Trying to get paid to be myself in the world and improve civilizational infrastructure
- Lately: streaming on Twitch
other things i'm up to lately
- Building my own cognitive tools and augmenting myself with AI
- Fellowships: going to YCSS, applying to YC and the Foresight Institute, and submitting an article draft to Asterisk magazine
- Being an autodidact, Wikipedia troller, and bookmark-saver
- Getting into synthesizers
- Getting into streaming on Twitch, accumulating streaming hardware, and building my own software integrations
- Controllerism for AI
- Cooking for nourishment
- Creating digital artifacts that make me legible to the world, lend me legitimacy, and enable remixability: project demos and writing
- Writing because writing forces clarity
writing
We should write. Mainly to become legible to ourselves. If lucky, to others. When we write for the curious, and not the ignorant, curiosity bears its fruit: new answers to powerful questions.
media
music
videos
Crazy Wisdom Podcast — The Connective Tissue of Innovation
sensorium
sensorium is a multisensory music event series i curate, synthesizing sight, sound, scent, taste, touch.
read about the first sensorium, or browse my rough notes for sensorium v2: the space cantina.
interests
Systems + Civilization
- incentive alignment problems
- human civilization simulation
- engineering human flourishing
- transhumanism
- abundance engineering
- cryptocurrency
- living in a village with my friends
- making California awesome
- affordable housing
Ecology + Health
- preventative healthcare
- longevity: lifespan, healthspan, happyspan (A.U.C.)
- decentralized abundant food systems
- permaculture and syntropic agroforestry
- circular economy
Intelligence + Interfaces
- intelligence augmentation
- human capability augmentation
- AI automation of unsexy labor
- ai-native programming languages
- replacing the 'desktop' with spatialized computing
- building a better browser
- ambient UI
- gaussian splatting and interactive visualization
Consciousness + Embodiment
- existence / why there is something rather than nothing
- the fact of consciousness
- the hedonistic imperative
- daoism / qigong / qi, vitality, nourishment, life force
- wellness
Art + Sport
- DJing
- linguistics
- surfing
- bodyweight fitness