Strategy & storytelling
I build tools for thinking and tell stories about people who think too much. Currently building Synthetica, a research platform that gives solo thinkers access to the distributed cognition normally hoarded by institutions—the questions your peers would ask, the objections your critics would raise.
Before that: fifteen years helping complicated ideas survive contact with people who disagree. I put oil companies, environmentalists, and labor unions in the same room to pass climate legislation. I spent seven years filming the world's highest-IQ society for a documentary about what good is genius when the machines are catching up. I almost finished a philosophy PhD about why smart people talk past each other, then decided to build something instead.
Research tool
A research tool that gives individual thinkers access to the distributed cognition normally available only through institutions.
Selected essays
Current work
2010–2024
Strategy work
CV and bio
Hi, I'm Kevin, a communications strategist and documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles.
I spent fifteen years moving between worlds that don't talk to each other: policy and documentary, union halls and boardrooms, academic philosophy and startup pitch decks.
The work I keep coming back to: building the coalition that passed the 45Q Tax Credit, which put oil companies, environmentalists, and labor unions in the same room backing the same bill. Turns out if you let each group tell their own story about why a policy serves their values, you don't need them to agree about anything else.
MA Philosophy (ABD) from University College Dublin. Habermas, social epistemology, and why smart people talk past each other.