About

I'm David Nuñez. For two decades I built things inside research labs, museums, and corporate tech teams. Now I do this full-time: explore emerging futures in public. I tinker and build in the open, then write up what happens, mess included. I'd rather poke at the future than predict it: build small working pieces of it and tell you what they teach me. If you'd rather engage with what's coming than brace for it, pull up a stool.

I'm a public explorer of emerging futures. I get curious about where technology and being human are headed, I build small experiments to find out, and I share the whole process — the wins, the dead ends, the half-formed hunches — out in the open.

I make to think. Fifty rough prototypes teach me more than one polished strategy deck ever could, so I'd rather build a working piece of the future than write another prediction about it. I do it in public to be a useful example of how to approach this stuff, not just consume it.

I've spent two decades working wherever technology and humanity intersect, plus earning a graduate degree in how humans and AIs actually work together. So I've shipped real things in the real world, and I know the difference between a clever demo and something that holds up.

Until recently, this was the thing I did after hours. Then I left the steady institutional job and made it my whole job. Best decision I've made in years. The build needed all of me, and now it has it.

Off the clock, you'll find me on long morning walks talking the day through, cooking for people I like, and generally trying to stay a whole person, not just a productive one. I think the work's better for it.

Off My Board is where most of this lands first. If something I'm building makes you think "I wonder what that looks like in my world," that's usually the start of a good conversation. Let's have it.