Use AI throughout the workflow
Research, analysis, venture design, communication, and execution—not an isolated prompt exercise.
Teaching and public scholarship
Teaching & Talks
AI and computation, entrepreneurship and innovation, social ontology and cognition—taught as forms of disciplined inquiry and practical judgment.
Featured teaching case · Spring 2025
AI tools for entrepreneurship
MIST 50 · Introduction to Entrepreneurship · UC Merced
The entire course was organized around using and critically evaluating contemporary AI tools across entrepreneurial research, venture development, communication, and execution.
AI served as the working environment rather than a supplementary topic. The course emphasized task decomposition, evidence checking, comparison of outputs, responsible tool use, and the difference between generating a plausible articulation and taking action in the social world.
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Read the teaching reflectionEvaluate the output
Inspect assumptions, sources, missing context, causal claims, and the fit between tool and task.
Act beyond the model
Entrepreneurship still requires trust, agreement, enrollment, responsibility, and action with other people.
Recorded lectures
Watch and listen
Selected public talks on social ontology, entrepreneurship, and theory development.
Management of Complex Systems Talk Series · UC Merced · 2017
Deontic Binding: Imposed, Voluntary, and Autogenic
Management of Complex Systems Speaker Series · 2020
Functional Entrepreneurship: A Different Approach
Academy of Management Review Origins Series · 2021
Where Does Theory Come From?
Teaching areas
Courses and curriculum
The comprehensive CV retains the full chronological record; these groupings show the intellectual structure.
AI and computation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Thinking Like a Programmer
- Logic and Data Science in Python
- AI tools for entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- Functional and pragmatic entrepreneurship
- Venture development
- Financial analysis
Social ontology and cognition
- Social Reality and Cognition
- Social Ontology
- Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Mind and Social Science
Selected presentations
Recent talks
Academic and public presentations on AI, entrepreneurship, strategy, and social ontology.
2026
Why LLMs Will Never Generate Strategic or Scientific Breakthroughs
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
2026
Pragmatic Entrepreneurship
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
2026
Superfecund Agreements
University of Bath School of Management
2025
How Far Can LLMs Interpolate Beyond Their Training Data?
University of Bristol Business School
2025
Mean Articulation Machines
Strategy Science invitational conference and University of Bath
2024
Current and Future Prospects for Large Language Models in AI
UC Merced
2022
Human-Like AI and Human Problem-Solving AI
National University of Singapore