I'm Oscar, design engineer based in SF. I make complex systems usable.

I'm a founding engineer at Workshop Labs, where I lead product and design. Workshop is a neolab building private, personalised language models designed to democratise intelligence.

[writing]

Some pieces on augmenting what it means to be human.

• Nov '25, A Market of Whispering Earrings
• Jun '25, Build Your Exoskeleton
• Feb '25, A Society of Rick Rubins
• Oct '24, Understanding Emergence

[civilisation]

Good tools bridge paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.

• The best tools disappear into use. The goal is AI that becomes part of thought, not adjacent to it.
• Well-intentioned products minimise the gap between a user's model and their environment.
• Life on Earth is an outlier, land is cheap, and all problems are soluble.

[art i love]

This website is open source.