AUKINGFAI
Tell you more about me
Hi, I’m Fai.
I’ve never thought of myself as a specialist in any one thing. What I tend to care about is the structure underneath things: why something works the way it does, what holds it together, and what changes when you look at it from another angle.
A lot of that curiosity eventually comes back to cognition. I’m interested in how people form ideas, how language changes what can be noticed, how patterns become concepts, and how concepts quietly begin to shape the way we see the world. Sometimes that leads me into philosophy. Sometimes into psychology, design, AI, communication, or systems. I rarely experience them as completely separate subjects.
One question has stayed with me for a long time:
What happens when the mind starts noticing how it thinks?
I’m less interested in finding a final answer than in seeing what becomes possible once that process itself becomes visible.
Outside of writing and thinking, I’ve spent time doing things that may not seem especially related: driving alone across Tibet, painting whisky bottles, making leather bags by hand, improvising on the harp. I think I’m drawn to them for a similar reason. They all ask for a certain kind of attention. You work with material, sound, movement, distance, resistance, and uncertainty, and somewhere in that process you notice things that are difficult to reach through explanation alone.
This site started simply as a place to keep some of those things.
Not a portfolio, exactly, and not a résumé. More like a personal archive for ideas, experiments, images, objects, and fragments that felt worth leaving somewhere rather than letting them disappear.
Over time, it has also become a place where I explore language, prompting, cognition, and the strange new behaviors that appear when people begin working closely with generative systems.
If you found your way here because something caught your attention, I’m glad you did.
You’re always welcome to reach out, whether you work in research, design, technology, writing, or none of those things at all.
I don’t think of this site as a place where I have something to teach. It is mostly a place for looking carefully, making things, and occasionally finding a useful way to describe what became visible.