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The Individual
You’re trying to build something durable in a field that keeps rewriting its own rules. How do you learn the right things, make smart bets, and keep moving when the advice keeps changing?
Vol. I · February 2026 · New York
cooc.ing
Craft Order Outta Chaos.
cooc.ing is thinking. Thinking is cooc.ing.
Chaos is everywhere. In how you build a career. In how teams make decisions. In how organizations absorb change. In how societies govern themselves through things no one has seen before.
Most people wait for the chaos to settle before they act. It never settles.
cooc.ing starts from a different place: you think by doing. You build order by moving through the mess, not by standing outside it. Every attempt teaches you something. Every failure sharpens the next move.
This is where that thinking gets documented.
The Epistemology of Action
To cooc is to stop waiting for the perfect conditions and start moving.
It’s what every builder, researcher, and practitioner eventually figures out: you don’t think your way to clarity and then act. You act, and the clarity follows. The understanding forms in your hands, not in your head.
For a long time, the accepted sequence was: Analyze. Plan. Execute. That worked when the world moved slowly enough to finish the analysis. It doesn’t anymore. By the time the planning is done, the problem has shifted. The map is wrong before the ink dries.
cooc.ing is the other sequence. You engage with the problem before you fully understand it. You try something, watch it break, and learn more in that moment than weeks of preparation would have given you. Every edge case, every failed assumption, that’s real feedback. High-resolution. Immediate.
The people making progress today aren’t the ones who researched longest. They’re the ones who got their hands on the problem first and stayed honest about what they found.
That’s the practice. That’s what this place is about.
See the scale of chaosThe Dimensions of Human Endeavor
Chaos doesn’t respect scale. It shows up in a person’s career the same way it shows up in a government’s policy decisions: too many variables, too little certainty, and no manual for the situation you’re actually in.
cooc.ing maps the problem at every level. We start with the individual because that’s where most people first feel it and expand outward.
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The Team
How do small groups of people cut through the noise, make real decisions together, and actually ship things without drowning in process?
03
The Organization
Large institutions are trying to absorb technology that moves faster than they can reorganize. How do you change a system from the inside without breaking it?
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Society & Governance
Economic policy, institutional design, global systems, all operating in conditions that have no real historical precedent. How do you craft order at that scale?
We will map every tier of this architecture. But we do not begin with theory. We begin on the ground.
See the immediate coordinatesThe Immediate Coordinates
cooc.ing starts where the chaos is most immediate right now: careers and AI.
Not because the other domains can wait, but because these are the two places where most practitioners are feeling the problem most acutely today. The field is moving faster than any framework can keep up with. People are confused, not because they’re not smart, but because the signals are genuinely contradictory.
That’s where we begin.
Vector 01
Career in the Age of AI
What does it actually mean to build a durable career when AI is restructuring the field you trained for? Not predictions. Not hot takes. Frameworks and honest observations from someone navigating it in real time.
Vector 02
AI as a Complex System
AI isn’t just a tool, it’s a system exhibiting emergent, non-linear behavior. This vector looks at it through the lens of complexity science: network theory, dynamical systems, and what that means for how frontier models actually behave in the world.
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Vector 02 essays on AI and complexity science are coming next.
A Commons for the Practitioner
cooc.ing is a think tank that starts with one person’s thinking and grows through many.
Right now, it’s a place where one practitioner working at the intersection of AI, ML, data science, software engineering, and the question of how careers actually compound writes honestly about what they’re learning.
Over time, it becomes a commons: a place where researchers, builders, strategists, and practitioners from different fields and different corners of the world bring their own experience of navigating chaos and turning it into something useful.
No noise. No performative certainty. Just the documented reality of crafting order.
If you’re working through something and want to contribute, the door is open.