About the Work

I write about interpretation as a moral responsibility. My essays examine how people decide what is happening in moments of disagreement, uncertainty, or strain, and how those decisions shape coordination, trust, and consequence.

Much of everyday conflict arises from uneven interpretive demands. In many relationships and systems, some people are expected to explain, translate, or accommodate so interaction can continue. Others are not. Over time, this imbalance determines who is believed, who is corrected, who must justify themselves, and who can disengage without consequence.

The writing here focuses on situations where interpretation has material effects. I write about misrecognition, caretaking, restraint, and repair. I am interested in what happens when accuracy produces resistance, when clarity creates obligation, and when people are pressed to reduce what they know or feel to preserve stability.

These essays are personal in scope, informed by work in complex institutional settings where decisions depend on indirect evidence and distributed judgment. They are written for careful reading and do not represent institutional positions, formal research, or professional guidance.

Separately, I am the founder of the Transformation Management Institute and the principal theorist behind the General Theory of Interpretation and Meaning System Science. That work is published through the Institute and addresses formal theory, system analysis, and applied standards.