← The workVenture
In the Middle of All Things
A reading and listening app for his book, in which an abstract visual layer responds to the text.
Ownership
- DocumentedHis own publishing product.
Stage
- DocumentedLive at middleofallthings.com as a reader and listener for his book, with interest registration for the print edition.
His role
- DocumentedAuthor and builder: the 2026 version's repository is his.
Decisions
- DocumentedA designed visual vocabulary: each shape has a form, a behaviour and the kind of sentence it answers. Shapes are cued deterministically from the text, not generated.
- DocumentedNarration is pre-generated with Google Cloud text-to-speech and served from storage, with checks that refuse to mix voices.
What this demonstrates
- InferenceInteraction design and a rule-based creative system. An earlier 2025 version had a different stack; its README and the old case study describe that version and are not relied on here.
Product ↗Fullest account: middleofallthings.com
Each line is labelled by the evidence behind it. Documented: checkable in code, a live product or a primary artefact. Stated: his own account. Attributed: a wider team's or client's. Inference: a reading of the evidence, not a fact. Unknown: not established. No outcome or metric is documented for any of this work. The same record is published for AI assistants at /llms-full.txt.