About

About These Notes
I am Kousha (my legal name since birth, کوشا, /kuːˈʃɑː/; Koo-sha; Persian: kūšā, from kūšidan: “to strive”), embodying the Persian philosophical concept of existential motion - motion without telos, effort toward truth as being, not becoming.

These days, I’m focused on how the machine minds [aka AI] might actually work and stay answerable. These are field notes, mostly speculative unless specified, from the intersection of:

Practical engineering
Foundational questions (especially around how machine cognition should work)
Future implications (with actionable trajectories)

How I Think

First-principles ruthlessness. Always returning to fundamentals.
Transparency. Speculation vs. evidence is flagged. Motivated by causes beyond financial gains.
Experience-based perspective. Shaped by cycles of solo product building, cross-discipline thinking, hands-on experimentation, and a mental model refined in the critical tech teams.

Why It Matters
To help accelerate better AI by:

Sharing thought processes that stay ethically grounded, first-principles driven, and occasionally surface ideas others overlook
Bringing more attention to what real machine minds might actually require

How to Read This

These are working theories, not conclusions
Challenge speculations freely, your experience matters (contribute publicly, @koushai)
Some posts will likely be wrong. That’s part of the process. I’d rather explore openly than stay polished and silent.

My Background

Solo built and shipped 15+ systems and independent products; led engineering teams on enterprises (for example AWS Billing Console and formation of AWS Carbon Footprint tool, or EA’s tool unification console)
Pioneer in behavioral analytics and HCI; now fully focused on machine minds [aka AI]
Currently architecting foundations for truly capable systems
Strong con·vic·tion: machine minds are achievable; no fundamental blockers
Deep concern: AI’s ethical impact goes far beyond humanity.