cody hergenroeder / systems, taste, aliveness
Systematizing human flourishing.
01 who is cody hergenroeder
- role
- Head of Product
- org
- Ideaflow — intelligence-augmenting notebook
- education
- B.S. Symbolic Systems, Stanford
- disposition
- First principles thinker. Technical generalist. Skeptical but open-minded.
- Seeks the edge of knowledge
- Overton window pusher
- Bespoke take holder
- Rides the edge of what can be known
- Good epistemology comes first
02 work
- company
- Ideaflow
- product
- AI-powered notebook for intelligence augmentation
- tenure
- 2022 – present
- Product Hunt launch — #2 of the day, 544 upvotes
- 10x users
03 passion
Consciousness + Embodiment
- existence / why there is something rather than nothing
- life
- the fact of consciousness
- qualia engineering
- the hedonistic imperative
- daoism / surfing the universe
- qigong / qi, vitality, nourishment, life force
- surfing
- experiential design — multisensory music events
- wellness
- fitness
Intelligence + Interfaces
- intelligence augmentation
- human capability augmentation
- AI automation of unsexy labor
- building AGI
- ai-native programming languages
- user interface design
- reinventing browser design
- reinventing social media algorithm (feed) design
- gaussian splatting and interactive visualization
- global supply chain visibility (OSINT)
Systems + Civilization
- incentive alignment problems
- human civilization simulation
- engineering human flourishing
- human progress
- transhumanism
- abundance engineering
- cryptocurrency
- currency as a coordination protocol
- global macroeconomics (debt cycles)
- turning houses into homes and neighborhoods into communities; living in a village with my friends
- making California awesome
- affordable housing
- architecture designed for its environment
Ecology + Health
- preventative healthcare
- longevity: lifespan, healthspan, happyspan (A.U.C.)
- longevity and life extension
- decentralized abundant food systems
- permaculture
- syntropic agroforestry and ecological architecture
Expression + Culture
- DJing
- linguistics
- writing