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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 open-minded (and not for the critics), we learn powerful questions, and channel fruitful answers.
- requests for startups: problems i want to exist solutions to
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