Jorge Gonzalez

Some questions outgrow their fields. Following them — through design, software, mathematics, philosophy — is less a strategy than a reflex. What ends up on this site is usually what those questions led to.

At 18 I was designing luminous signs. Within a few years I was teaching the design department Adobe Illustrator — which I had learned alone, from an English manual, before I spoke English. Not because it was required, but because I had seen what it could do and couldn't look away. That pattern has repeated across every domain since. The fields change. The pull doesn't.

That same pull eventually turned toward something that had bothered me for a long time: the foundational assumptions of geometry. The dimensionless point, the infinite line, the circle as a limit object rather than a constructible shape — these are treated as settled facts, but they contain tensions that rarely get examined. I've been developing a process-relational framework as a way to think through them: one in which geometric objects arise from finite relational rules rather than from an ambient space, and in which metric structure is an external parameter rather than an intrinsic property. The mathematics sits in dialogue with existing work in geometric group theory and enriched category theory. It is still developing, and I am still learning the territory it connects to. The ideas are serious; the humility about where they stand is equally serious.

In parallel, I'm finishing Monky — a browser extension for macro and text expansion built around a keyboard-centric interface, for people whose thinking moves faster than their typing. The same instinct applies: find the minimum structure that solves the real problem, remove what isn't necessary, build what remains well.

If something here opens a question worth pursuing — in any of these directions — I'm glad to hear it.