July 5, 2025

Author - John Deacon

John is a researcher and digitally independent practitioner focused on developing aligned cognitive extension technologies. His creative and technical work draws from industry experience across instrumentation, automation and workflow engineering, systems dynamics, and strategic communications design.

Rooted in the philosophy of Strategic Thought Leadership, John's work bridges technical systems, human cognition, and organizational design, helping individuals and enterprises structure clarity, alignment, and sustainable growth into every layer of their operations.

Mapping Concepts onto CAM Objective Function for Enhanced Adaptability

Here we’re map­ping oth­er con­cepts to the CAM Frame­work with East­ern terms that sparked the idea in a recent Emmett Shear tweet: An agent is defined by its Bud­dhi, Man­as, Ahankara and Chit­ta. By which I mean, its loss func­tion, con­text...

Transforming Leadership with the CAM Framework for Visionary Adaptability

To address the cur­rent chal­lenge of “bor­ing” lead­er­ship frame­works that often fail to engage vision­ary lead­ers and high-lev­el pro­fes­sion­als, we can craft a com­pelling, acces­si­ble resource intro­duc­ing the Core Align­ment Mod­el (CAM)...

How Objective Functions Propel Large Language Models Forward

The secret to smarter, more eth­i­cal, and user-aligned large lan­guage mod­els lies in a sin­gle, pow­er­ful tool: the objec­tive func­tion. Dis­cov­er how this piv­otal mech­a­nism shapes the future of AI, ensur­ing mod­els not only meet but...