Economist · Futurist · Applied Researcher · Essayist
B.S. Economics · University of Houston, 2026 M.S. Foresight · University of Houston, Fall 2026 22-year U.S. Navy Veteran · Houston, TX
I work at the intersection of behavioral economics, urban systems, and applied foresight. My research gets peer-reviewed. My code gets deployed. My essays get read by people who then text me things like "damn, that's me."
Three papers on SSRN. One under journal review. Building a hyperlocal social app for Houston and a foresight intelligence tool. Starting an M.S. in Futures Studies in Fall 2026.
"The research question I keep returning to: what happens to human decision-making when systems fail slowly enough that we adapt to them?"
All papers available on SSRN. Data publicly archived on Harvard Dataverse.
| Paper | Venue | Status | Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rational Foreclosure: A Stochastic Reference Point Model of Aspirational Abandonment under Positional Drift | Theoretical Economics | 🔄 Under Review | |
| The Regime Boundaries of AI-Amplified Research: Task Complementarity, Physical Validation, and the Limits of Semi-Endogenous Growth | Journal of Economic Growth · BUPA submission pending | ✅ SSRN Posted | |
| Two Sectors, One Airspace: Workload, Complexity, and Safety in Air Traffic Control | Journal of Air Transport Management | 🔄 Under Review |
Methods used: Stochastic optimal stopping · Kőszegi-Rabin reference-dependence · BVP reformulation · Semi-endogenous growth theory · Leontief/CES task complementarity · O*NET digital task share proxies · Newey-West HAC regression · Reproducibility-bundled replication code
Key antecedents: Jones (1995) · Bloom et al. (2020) · Acemoglu & Restrepo (2018) · Kőszegi & Rabin (2006) · Vicky Henderson (2012) · Genicot & Ray (2017) · Gans (2025)
Things I'm actually building.
Stoop — Hyperlocal Social, Video-First
Neighborhood discovery for people who are tired of being algorithmically sorted into loneliness.
Fandom-level interest matching within proximity bands. No DMs. No groups. No events. Just the 100 people closest to you who care about the same things you do. Starting in Montrose, Houston.
React Native Proximity Matching Fandom Interests Horizontal Scroll No-DM Architecture
Roam — Waze for Hunting
Crowdsourced field intelligence for hunters who are tired of burning diesel on bad intel.
Parcel boundary overlays, offline mode, ArcGIS satellite tiles, crowdsourced field intel posts. Freemium: Scout (free) → Field Pass ($4.99/mo) → Landowner ($19.99/mo).
Leaflet.js ArcGIS Regrid API Supabase IndexedDB Offline-First
SwarmMind — AI-Native Foresight Intelligence
Structured scenario planning that doesn't require a PhD to run.
Integrates STEEP classification, Schwartz scenario planning, Three Horizons, Hines HAT axes, CLA, Spiral Dynamics, and Polak Future Image scoring into a single workflow. Built for foresight practitioners, policy analysts, and organizations that plan in years not quarters.
Foresight Scenario Planning STEEP Strategic Intelligence
TokenWater — Track the Water Cost of AI
100ml per 1,000 tokens. Across 20 platforms. Now you know.
Cross-platform AI water consumption tracker. Converts token usage to water cost equivalent. Open source, MIT licensed.
HTML JavaScript AI Ethics Environmental Accountability
Essays at RLPerspectives.com — the Greenlight voice. Confessional before analytical. Structurally chaotic in the way that things that are actually true tend to be.
- The Boring Couple, and the Church That Never Met Jesus
- Propaganda Machines
- The Year the Noise Stopped Working
Research: Stata · R (lmtest, sandwich, survival) · Python (pandas, numpy, scipy) · Harvard Dataverse · SSRN
Foresight: Schwartz Scenario Planning · CLA · Three Horizons · Hines HAT · Polak Future Image
Writing: Substack · ORCID-linked publications · Open data archiving
22 years as a U.S. Navy Senior Chief — logistics, leadership, and systems-level problem solving at scale. Veteran-owned business (RL Perspectives, LLC). Population health minor, because economic models that ignore bodies are incomplete. Everest Base Camp, 2024. Houston by choice.
Currently accepting: research collaborations, policy consulting, and conversations that don't start with "let's circle back."