The person behind
the page.

I'm Jacob Ajiboye. I write essays, build AI systems, and spend a strange amount of time thinking about what makes a country actually work. The Good Mind is the public-facing edge of that thinking — the part I've decided to commit to in writing rather than only in conversation.

Most of what I publish here started as an argument with myself. I'd notice a pattern in a project, a contradiction in a policy debate, or a quiet failure mode in some piece of AI tooling — and the only way to resolve it was to write the long version. Some of those long versions stay in a notebook. The ones that survive a year of re-reading land here.

What I actually do.

By trade, I build software — most of it touching AI agents, workflow automation, and the boring civic plumbing that decides whether public services feel humane or hostile. Some of that work is consulting, some open-source, some essays disguised as code, and code disguised as essays. The throughline is the same question: what does technology look like when it's built for the citizen first, the user second, and the customer third?

The answer changes. The question doesn't.

Currently.

• NowWriting the third draft of a long essay on constitutional design as a craft. Building an open AI framework for civic teams (in three pilots). Fielding too many emails.
• Available forOne advisory engagement per quarter. One writing residency per year. Speaking, when the question is interesting and the audience is small enough to argue back.
• ReadingSowell, Henry George, Martha Nussbaum, the back-catalogue of Works in Progress, and whatever paper the AI-agents discord is arguing about this week.
• Not doingTwitter threads about the meta. Conferences with no questions. Anything that requires me to call myself a thought leader with a straight face.
• Based inDallas, Texas, with a dropping-pin habit. GMT+1 most months.
• Best emailconnect@thegoodmind.io — I read everything; I reply to most things.

If you'd like to get in touch.

The fastest way is email. If you write me about an essay I've published, please tell me what landed and what didn't — I learn more from that than from anything else.