Speaking · book the curator

Put me in the room.

I don't speak in a blazer about a future I read in a report. I speak about the machine I actually use, the things it still can't do, and what it takes to build something real when the world's already counted you out. Plain language. No hype. People tend to leave a little braver.

A machine can deliver the slides. It can't mean a word of them. That part's the human at the mic.

The talks

★ The signature

Built on Empty: a living museum, on disability income, with an AI — and a lot of honesty

The one nobody else can give. How I built something that makes strangers cry on their phones — broke, sidelined, and refusing to fake it. What AI can actually do for a person who's struggling, what it can't, and why the human is still the whole point.

For: NAMI & mental-health orgs · disability & recovery · faith communities · anyone rebuilding from the bottom.

The workshop

How to Use the Machine: AI without losing your judgment

The practical literacy nobody's teaching: attach the logic, check the number, make it cite, keep the last call. Walk out able to use AI well instead of being used by it. Hands-on, plain-spoken, zero jargon.

For: companies & teams (L&D) · libraries · schools · community groups.

The keynote

Only Humans Can Score: what the machines can't take

A machine can paint, calculate, and imitate — it can't decide what's true, what's kind, or what's worth anything. The case for keeping a human in the loop, told through building a whole museum to prove it.

For: conferences · civic groups · graduations · churches.

Why me — and it isn't just this museum

The museum is the latest proof, not the reason. The reason runs further back than one website — and it's mine to tell from the stage, not to pad here with a résumé. What you're booking is a person who's lived the hard version and kept building anyway.

— the curator's fuller story goes here, in his own hand —

Want me in your room?

No forms, no funnel. The booking is human, the way everything here is.

DM me to book — [ handle / where to reach me · curator to set ]

Where the house stands. The talks are real and the speaker is real — but this page carries no invented credentials, no fake testimonials, and no past-gig list the house can't stand behind. The fuller bio and the booking contact are the curator's to set in his own hand; until then they stay blank, on purpose. The one rule holds: no lying. The machine can run the slides; only a human can mean them.