About

Most people stumble into their life's questions by accident. Mine arrived through family lineage.

My ancestor, David Ramsay Hay, published work in 1856 on harmonic proportions in art and architecture—the idea that beauty follows mathematical ratios found in nature. For forty years, I've been testing whether he was right, using computational methods he never had access to. Turns out he was onto something profound. Those same harmonic ratios appear in atomic structure, planetary orbital mechanics, chemical bonding patterns. They're not aesthetic preferences. They're structural solutions to a fundamental problem.

That problem: How do systems maintain coherent structure while preserving dynamic autonomy?

It's the same question whether you're looking at peripheral peoples evading state control (James C. Scott), starlings in murmuration, middle managers navigating organizational dynamics, or designing personal health protocols. The mathematics of equilibrium—that φ-ovoid sweet spot between rigid order and chaotic freedom—appears at every scale.

This repository exists because after four decades of investigation across surveying, anthroposophy, organizational consulting, and harmonic theory, I've accumulated maps worth sharing. Not selling, not gatekeeping—sharing. The research artifacts are here, freely licensed, for anyone who finds them useful in navigating their own terrain.

Research in three threads:

• Governance at Scale: How complex systems coordinate without crushing individual agency

• The Mathematics of Equilibrium: The φ-ovoid and harmonic structures that appear across domains

• Applied Governance: Theory tested in practice—health protocols, organizational dynamics, lived experience

Field Notes:

Raw research documentation. Many are transcripts of AI conversations where I work through problems—NEWASTRO planetary calculations, Walter Russell's cosmology, murmuration dynamics, organizational blind spots. Published unfiltered, sometimes serialized for length, always transparent about process. These are works in progress. They contradict each other sometimes. That's research.

Library:

Finished artifacts. Flying Blind: 10 Critical ROI Blind Spots (2016), completed research papers, syntheses that have crystallized into stable form. Polished doesn't mean final—everything here is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, which means you can build on it.

Code:

Python scripts, calculations, datasets. φ-ovoid geometric computations, harmonic analysis tools. Use them, fork them, improve them.

I work conversationally with AI—primarily Claude (Anthropic) now, Grok (xAI) earlier. Not because AI does the thinking, but because explaining ideas to an intelligent interlocutor forces clarity. The AI asks questions I hadn't considered, catches errors in my logic, helps me see patterns I've been too close to notice.

This isn't "AI-generated content." These are documented research conversations. I bring decades of study—anthroposophy, harmonic theory, surveying, organizational dynamics, materials science. The AI brings computational power, cross-domain pattern matching, and the ability to work through complex mathematics at speed. Together we map territory neither of us could map alone.

Every AI conversation published in Field Notes is labeled as such. The methodology is completely transparent. You can see exactly how the research develops, including dead ends and corrections. That's the point—you're watching inquiry unfold, not receiving finished answers.

All content here is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

You can:

• Share it

• Adapt it

• Use it commercially

• Build on it

You must:

• Give appropriate credit

• Share derivative works under the same license

I chose this license because knowledge advances through open sharing, not proprietary gatekeeping. If these maps help you navigate your terrain, use them. If you improve them, share the improvements so others benefit. That's how cartography works—each generation refines the maps for the next.

I'm not monetizing insight. I'm mapping territory. The value isn't in hoarding the maps—it's in making them accurate and accessible.

I'm Stephen, 64+, currently living in a solar-powered aluminium truck and trailer unit in New Zealand.

Background: Bachelor's degree in surveying. Author of Flying Blind. Thirty years studying Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy. Family connection to David Ramsay Hay's 19th-century work on harmonic proportions in art and architecture; I've been validating his theories using modern computational methods and finding they hold across atomic structure, planetary mechanics, and chemical bonding.

Current research obsessions: Mapping φ-ovoid geometry across scales. Understanding murmuration dynamics as field-based phenomena. Testing health optimization protocols systematically (77:17 body composition framework, 17-hour intermittent fasting, evidence-based supplementation).

Daily practice: Muay Thai and Muay Boran, 5km walks, Pilates and dumbbell work, tracking health metrics with 7-day rolling averages. The body is a laboratory. Health protocols are governance experiments.

Why these questions: I've consulted with organizations for decades, but I was never comfortable with the consultant's promise to solve your problem. I'm better at seeing patterns across domains and making them visible. Cartography, not navigation. You decide where you're going; I just make the terrain legible.

The trailer life is literal peripheral existence—maintaining autonomy at the edge of systems. Practicing what I research, to the best of my abilities.

I occasionally work with organizations and individuals who need help reading terrain they're navigating. Not traditional consulting—I don't diagnose and prescribe. I help make patterns visible so you can navigate more consciously.

If you're interested in that kind of engagement, see how we might work together.

Otherwise, everything is here. The maps are free. Use them well.