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Digital Stem Cell
A platform built from the outside in — now 300,000 followers.
Cognitive architect & innovation strategist.
I build bridges between the systems we create and the humans they forget.
Not a metaphor. A 240,000-node cognitive infrastructure that turns lived experience into queryable intelligence. This is what happens when a gestalt brain builds its own operating system.
What brings you here?
240,720
Nodes mapped
17,336
Connections
3
Books, one day
300K
Followers
The thread
Seven times, trauma became a project.
Not because Ryan is extraordinary. Because when systems fail you repeatedly, you either build a door or you don’t get through.
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Rock Against Racism
Local bands and youth organised into a response, at nineteen.
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Bow Tie Kreative
Founded 2013. Twenty years of clients, $430K lifetime, systems built by someone who needed them to work.
bowtiekreative.com ↗Four
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Pain into Projects
The framework that came out of it. Not a resilience talk — a build manual.
the talk →Six
I’m Autistic, Bich! and SoulsMatter
A memoir and a platform, published out of the same diagnosis.
soulsmatter.com ↗Seven
The Second Brain
A 240,720-node cognitive infrastructure. Not a productivity tool — a new way of being, where every experience connects to every other and the past becomes queryable.
Speaking
Not inspiration. Infrastructure.
Three signature talks, each drawing from 240,000 connected experiences. Custom topics available.
Invisible Constraints
How the edges of your system reveal its future. The five constraints your most marginalized users face are the five constraints killing your innovation — mapped using data from 240,000 analysed events.
Keynote · Workshop
Pain into Projects
Building infrastructure from breakdown. Not a resilience talk — a build manual. How to turn the worst things that happened to you into the best things you have ever built.
Keynote · Fireside · Workshop
The Connected Brain
What happens when you map everything. The Second Brain is not a productivity tool — it is a new way of being, where every experience connects to every other and your past becomes queryable intelligence.
Keynote · Half-day
Endorsements
The rooms this work has been in.
Renée Taylor
Academy Award nominee · Emmy winner
The Nanny · Lovers and Other Strangers · My Life on a Diet
Norman Seeff
Photographer and filmmaker
Steve Jobs · Tina Turner · Joni Mitchell · Patti Smith · Andy Warhol · The Rolling Stones
Jully Black
JUNO winner · Canada’s Walk of Fame
Nas · Destiny’s Child · Alicia Keys · Elton John · Celine Dion · Drake
The Second Brain
Every experience, connected and queryable.
Not a product. A 240,720-node cognitive infrastructure, built because existing systems could not hold a gestalt mind. Now it holds everything — every client, every project, every lesson, every breakdown, every breakthrough.
The Vault is how you get access to what it has learned: the archive, organized and searchable, plus new material every week.
Membership
$39/month
Or $390/year — two months free
- The full knowledge base, searchable
- New material every week
- Monthly live session
- The community
- Cancel anytime
Also
Books, the podcast, the workshop.
Written
Watch and learn
- The podcast — watchable, captioned
- 3-day website workshop — $997, leave with a live site
- Coaching — by application
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Three different answers depending on what you’re after. All of them are mine.
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