I’m building tools that find hidden connections across scientific fields — using 9 million patents and 357 million academic papers to surface the cross-domain analogies that nobody is looking for. This is where I write about the work, the ideas, and the data emerging from the frontier.
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Quiet Breakout: Your Sweat Is Becoming a Blood Test
219 US patents for devices that read biomarkers from sweat — a category that barely existed before 2010. Half were granted in the last five years.
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The Problem Graph Had a Long Reading List
Twelve themes from the problem-graph argument, queried against 605 books and 320,090 chunks. What came back was one continuous argument across ten voices.
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Quiet Breakout: The Coatings That Cool Themselves Using Outer Space
In 2024, the USPTO granted 21 patents for materials engineered to radiate heat through Earth’s atmosphere and into the vacuum of space. The technique requires zero electricity. The trick that made it work came from telecom.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Exotic Memory and the Hardware Race to the Brain
Kurzweil bet on rotaxanes, nanotubes, and self-assembling polymers to carry computing past silicon. Twenty years later, only spintronics made it to market — and the brain got matched anyway.
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Quiet Breakout: The Sound Waves That Clean Brains
A UCLA psychiatrist patented a device that plays your brain’s own deep-sleep frequency through your skull to clear Alzheimer’s plaque. Behind it: 64 patents, 144 clinical trials, and an FDA-approved device already treating patients.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Computing Hardware and the Sixth Paradigm
Kurzweil predicted molecular computing as the sixth paradigm. What arrived was 3D-stacked silicon, reversible logic startups, and an AI power crisis nobody saw coming.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Road to Strong AI
Kurzweil predicted strong AI via brain reverse-engineering. It arrived via transformers and text. Every destination was right. Every route was wrong.
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Convergence Watch: The Battery Factories Are Coming for Solar
CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, has 12 US patents on perovskite solar cell fabrication. The manufacturing DNA is nearly identical. A 48,000-paper field is about to meet the factory floor.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Turing Test and Machine Intelligence
Kurzweil predicted human-level AI by the mid-2020s. He got the direction right and the mechanism completely wrong.
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Silent Portfolio: Toyota Has 14x More US Solid-State Battery Patents Than QuantumScape
The solid-state battery story in the US press is QuantumScape’s share price and CATL’s announcements. The patent data tells a different story. Toyota holds 200 of the 1,148 US solid-state battery grants issued since 2020 — 14x QuantumScape, eight times the US pure-plays combined. A slow-walking incumbent is still an incumbent.