I'm Maxwell. I'm forty, I live in Greenpoint with my family, and for the last decade-plus I was running a small furniture company. I burned out on it hard — not on the work, on running a business — and a couple of years ago I wound it down and took a quieter job, on purpose, so I could get back to what I actually wanted to be doing: making things.

I'm a generalist by temperament. I've spent serious time on math, physics, AI research, software, woodworking, furniture design, illustration, drafting, music, audio engineering, video, editing, archiving, and restoration, and I switch between them as interest pulls me. I work on long timelines with no obligation to ship, which means most of what I've made has never left my desk. That's what this site is for — I stopped publishing in my early twenties and I'm finally starting again.

I'm not trying to build another company. I release everything under MIT, I care more about solving problems than owning them, and I work best with near-total independence. If that happens to be the shape of something someone wants to fund, I'd hear it. Otherwise this site exists to put the work in the world.

For fun, I also take swings at open problems with prizes attached — Millennium Problems, the EFF prime prize, a few others. Probably won't win. That's not why I do it.