I design protocols and reference infrastructure for representing rights, incentives, and systems as structured, interoperable data. My flagship work, the Universal Sports Graph (USG), defines a neutral framework for modeling sports rights through published RFCs, a versioned registry, and a working resolver. Alongside USG, I publish memos and whitepapers exploring how representation and incentive design shape scalable public and private systems.
The Universal Sports Graph defines a neutral interoperability standard for live sports: a rights registry, a universal Access API, and a league-governed clearinghouse that reconcile revenue and audit logs. By treating broadcast rights as structured data and access as an API, the Graph converts fragmentation into incremental revenue without cannibalizing subscriptions—transforming sports distribution from a patchwork of apps into shared infrastructure. The model introduces $4.99 day-passes, a 40 / 40 / 20 revenue split, and phased governance toward a global, regulator-aligned standard.
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This page provides two entry points into the work. The first introduces the Universal Sports Graph (USG) and its underlying protocol architecture. The second shows how the same systems thinking is applied to public policy and institutional design.
Path 1
Start with the core USG paper, then move into the formal specification and reference infrastructure.
Begin with the blueprint whitepaper introducing USG as a neutral protocol stack for representing sports rights as structured, interoperable data.
Then read the formal protocol specification defining the architecture, scope, and system logic of USG.
Explore the canonical data layer: structured records, stable identifiers, schema-backed objects, and versioned registry state.
Finally, see the read-only reference surface that resolves canonical USG records without introducing platform logic or service guarantees.
Path 2
Start with the core policy paper, then move through implementation and legislative formalization.
Begin with the whitepaper reframing government shutdowns as a structural credit problem in which essential workers extend involuntary credit to the state.
Then read the operational framework showing how payroll continuity could activate, execute, and reconcile during a shutdown.
Finally, review the statute-readable draft translating the mechanism into a portable legislative surface.
Observe how the Shutdown Stabilizer behaves under real shutdown conditions through a time-based operational simulation, tracking activation, payroll continuity, and second-order effects over a 30-day period.
The rest of the work expands on these foundations across protocols, policy, and institutional design.
A policy brief proposing a narrowly scoped continuity mechanism that preserves payroll for essential federal workers during government shutdowns, preventing them from functioning as involuntary short-term creditors of the federal government.
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Standards-track protocol specifications for the Universal Sports Graph (USG), including RFC documents, machine-validated schemas, and a versioned reference registry.
Minimal Read-Only Identifier Resolution Service
A reference implementation enabling deterministic resolution of canonical Universal Sports Graph (USG) identifiers against a pinned registry snapshot. The resolver is read-only, non-production, and exists solely to make the protocol inspectable in practice.
Canonical Identifiers & Metadata for USG Implementations (v0.1.1)
The USG Reference Registry v0.1.1 is a patch release that hardens the reference registry with CI-enforced schema validation, referential integrity checks, and deterministic dependency resolution. No registry semantics or identifiers were changed. This release marks the first CI-enforced, pilot-ready registry snapshot aligned with RFC 0003 (USG Registry Architecture), providing a reproducible data layer for entitlement validation, rights resolution, and settlement workflows.
Standards-Track Specification for Canonical Sports Rights Registries
RFC 0003 defines the Registry Architecture for the Universal Sports Graph (USG). It normatively specifies registry object models, canonical identifiers, lifecycle and versioning semantics, deterministic JSON formatting, SHA-256 integrity requirements, index structures, federation and authority rules, key registry integration, and validation requirements. This RFC formalizes how USG registries are structured, validated, and federated in pilot and production implementations.
Canonical Identifiers & Metadata for USG Implementations (v0.1.0)
The USG Reference Registry provides the first canonical dataset of leagues, teams, venues, broadcasters, rights bundles, and events for the Universal Sports Graph. It defines stable identifiers, schema-backed JSON records, deterministic formatting, machine-generated indexes, and registry-level metadata aligned with RFC 0001 and RFC 0002. This artifact anchors entitlement validation, rights resolution, and clearinghouse settlement in real-world implementations.
A Standards-Track Specification for Tokenized Sports Access
This RFC defines the USG Entitlement Token Profile, a standards-track specification for issuing, validating, and enforcing tokenized authorization within the Universal Sports Graph. It provides mandatory claims, optional extensions, security and privacy requirements, replay protection, error semantics, and verification logic for interoperable sports access.
A Protocol for Rights, Reach, and Real-Time Access
This RFC defines the Universal Sports Graph (USG), a neutral interoperability framework for sports rights registration, tokenized access, and clearinghouse settlement. It treats broadcast rights as structured data to enable transparent distribution, programmable contracts, and federated sports access.
Structured orientation documents supporting active standards and registry programs, with explicit scope and non-goals.
Federal shutdown: payroll continuity in practice
A time-based operational simulation showing how payroll continuity behaves during a federal shutdown. Tracks activation, disbursement, reconciliation, and second-order effects across a 30-day shutdown period.
Draft legislative language for payroll continuity during federal shutdowns
A legislative draft establishing a Treasury Payroll Continuity Authority to maintain payroll for essential federal employees during shutdowns. Defines authority, activation, payment, reconciliation, safeguards, and capacity in statute-readable form.
Operational framework for payroll continuity during federal shutdowns
A policy implementation outline establishing a Treasury Payroll Continuity Authority to maintain payroll for essential federal employees during shutdowns. Payments are treated as temporary advances and reconciled automatically once appropriations are restored.
Foundational orientation memo
A short orientation memo explaining why recurring sports rights failures are structural rather than contractual, and why neutral representation infrastructure is a necessary precondition for coordination. This memo provides context for the USG protocol stack and related work.
A single-season, league-platform pilot for the Universal Sports Graph.
An 8-page implementation brief translating the USG whitepaper and RFC 0001 into a real-world pilot: rights schema v0.1, Access API stub, clearinghouse sandbox, governance structure, KPIs, and next steps for running a 2026 single-season, $4.99 day-pass pilot between a league and a streaming platform.
A foundational memo on Humanity First Platforms
A foundational platform memo unifying multiple whitepapers into a single thesis: that the platforms replacing our institutions must be redesigned for humanity, not just scale. Introduces Humanity First Platforms and outlines core design patterns for building, governing, and sustaining next-generation systems.
A system-level design brief for content discovery on Xbox
A public design brief examining how elevating Xbox's existing "Surprise Me" feature to the system level could reduce choice fatigue, improve engagement, and surface latent value across the Xbox ecosystem. The brief treats interface affordances as system primitives rather than isolated UI features.
Independent whitepapers modeling industries and public systems through interoperability and protocol design.
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DOIDOI: 18147221Read Paper→Published an operational simulation demonstrating how the Shutdown Stabilizer behaves under real shutdown conditions. The document traces activation, payroll continuity, disbursement, and reconciliation across a 30-day shutdown timeline, showing how payments proceed on standard schedules and how second-order effects shift as worker-driven pressure is removed. Designed as a system-level validation artifact, it translates the mechanism from implementation into observed behavior.
Published draft legislative language for the Shutdown Stabilizer, translating the implementation outline into statute-readable form. The document defines a Treasury Payroll Continuity Authority with automatic activation during shutdowns, continued payroll execution for essential employees, and post-appropriation reconciliation. Designed as a minimal, portable draft that could be adopted or adapted without additional interpretation.
Published a structured implementation outline translating the Shutdown Stabilizer into an operational framework. The document defines how payroll continuity for essential federal employees could be maintained during government shutdowns through a limited Treasury authority, with automatic activation, standard payroll execution, and post-shutdown reconciliation. Designed as a policy implementation artifact, it removes ambiguity between concept and execution.
Released The Shutdown Stabilizer, a policy-oriented whitepaper reframing government shutdowns as a structural credit problem, where essential federal workers extend involuntary credit to the state. Proposes a standing payroll continuity mechanism to preserve compensation during funding lapses and reconcile once appropriations resume.
Independent Researcher & Protocol Designer
I'm an independent researcher focused on how rights, incentives, and access are structured and where those structures break down at scale. My work develops protocol-oriented models, schemas, and standards-style documents that make institutional systems legible, testable, and improvable through clearer architecture.
My background is in software and interface design, and I continue to approach problems through those lenses: treating systems as interfaces, tracing constraints, and analyzing how small structural decisions compound into large institutional outcomes. I prototype selectively, but my primary work operates at the level of protocol design, systems modeling, and rights architecture rather than application-layer products.
My flagship project is the Universal Sports Graph (USG), a standards-grade framework for representing sports rights, entitlement structures, and interoperable distribution. USG spans published RFC-style specifications, JSON schemas, and a versioned reference registry of rights objects designed to support validation, resolution, and neutral interoperability. Beyond USG, I maintain a cohesive research corpus—whitepapers, briefs, and RFCs—that examines how modern institutions behave when incentives are explicit, interfaces are well-defined, and system design prioritizes long-term coherence over short-term optimization.
I'm open to thoughtful conversations with people who have spent time with my work and see genuine overlap with something they're building, funding, or exploring. My focus sits at the intersection of software, systems, and institutional design, particularly where clarity, incentives, and infrastructure matter.
