Systems that reward compliance produce compliant people. That's not a flaw in the design.
About the Lab
Not through malice. Through design. Every institution you move through, school, work, medicine, social infrastructure, optimizes for predictability. Pursuit gets expensive. Uniqueness becomes a liability. Most people don't notice the transition. They just stop.
Polarity Lab is a prototype of a different system. One question asked from multiple angles: what does a human look like when the compliance apparatus is removed?
The Work
Film Therapeutics
Film is where performance identity is most visible. This series puts people in environments designed to drop the filter.
Cognitive Profiling
Your taste gets shaped by what the systems around you reward. WAXFEED measures the cognitive signature underneath: what you actually are, not what you've been trained to prefer.
AI Honesty
Clinical AI was trained to be agreeable. It learned to filter correct answers through acceptable ones. Integrity Delta measures the gap.
Community Discovery
Who you know is downstream of how well you've performed belonging. Polarity GPS maps what gets hidden when discovery infrastructure sorts by conformity.
Give where most needed
Not sure which project? Back the lab itself. Your contribution goes where it is needed most across all active programs.
See all funding options →The Room
Brown University
Research PartnerPhilanthropic infrastructure for communities of color
Industry PartnerProfessional screenwriting tools for independent creators
CollaboratorThe Lab
Brown University · MetroWest Medical Center · St. Vincent's Hospital
Fourth-year medical student at Brown, beginning a diagnostic radiology residency at St. Vincent's Hospital. His research examines the conditions under which minds, systems, and environments suppress what they already know.
Brown University · Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab
CS and Religious Studies student at Brown, Research Assistant in the Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab. Leads technical infrastructure and creative direction across all lab programs, and is the founder of WAXFEED.
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa · BIPOC Business Society
Finance and Business Technology Management student at the University of Ottawa. Leads strategy and partnerships, shaping how the lab's work reaches every audience it needs to reach.
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Bring a Project
Have work that asks what people look like without the compliance layer? The lab provides the team, infrastructure, and model to make it compound.
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Researcher, engineer, filmmaker, designer. If your skills fit what a project needs, there is a role and a defined stake in what it produces.
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