# Naya Moss — nayamoss.com

> Personal site of Naya Moss: writer, builder, creative technologist. Essays on AI, technology, neuroscience, security, and living unconventionally. Based in New York.

## Who This Is

Naya Moss is an independent builder and writer with a background in IT and information security. She transitioned from corporate IT/InfoSec work (Google, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Nike, HP and others) to building her own software tools and writing full-time.

She is neurodivergent (AuDHD), a night owl, and writes from lived experience rather than theory. Her writing is direct, personal, and story-first — no theses, no fluff, no hot takes for clicks.

She is 180+ days alcohol-free and caffeine-free, practices unconventional life design (no marriage, no kids by choice, no home ownership), and is actively learning romance languages (Romanian, French, Spanish, Portuguese).

## What She Writes About

- **Artificial intelligence** — how she actually uses AI tools day to day, what works, what doesn't, the gap between hype and reality
- **Neuroscience and psychology** — cognition, memory, behavior, mental health, how the brain actually works
- **Security and privacy** — from a practitioner perspective, not a vendor one
- **Learning and knowledge** — building mental models, reading widely, PKM systems
- **Unconventional life design** — rejecting default life scripts, housing instability, job searching while building
- **Technology and building** — shipping software as an indie builder, working with AI coding tools
- **Observations** — short-form thoughts on anything that catches her attention

## Content Sections

- [Blog](https://nayamoss.com/blog) — Main long-form essays across all topics
- [Thoughts](https://nayamoss.com/thoughts) — Short notes, observations, and quick takes
- [Atomic Essays](https://nayamoss.com/atomic-essays) — One idea, fully developed, in 500 words or fewer
- [Contextual Intelligence](https://nayamoss.com/contextual-intelligence) — Her newsletter on AI and cognition; each edition is a deep research piece
- [Contextual Thinking](https://nayamoss.com/contextual-thinking) — Long analytical writing, research-heavy essays on how people think and learn
- [How I Use AI](https://nayamoss.com/how-i-use-ai) — Practical documentation of her actual AI workflows and tool usage
- [Ethereal Epiphanies](https://nayamoss.com/ethereal-epiphanies) — Personal essays: life, identity, reflection
- [Book Notes](https://nayamoss.com/book-notes) — Reading notes, highlights, and reviews from 50-100+ books per year

## Projects She's Built

- **Imori** — Writing app structured around her research process: bookmark → artifact → synthesize → create
- **Sentio** — Platform layer connecting her apps together
- **Koyami** — To-do app designed for neurodivergent people; addresses time blindness and task paralysis
- **Intero** — Glucose monitoring companion app
- **Enso** — Feedback and changelog tool for indie builders
- **Hudson Life Dispatch** — Local newsletter covering Westchester County, NY
- **Travel with Uma** — Safety travel app for solo women travelers (shetravelswithuma.com)

## Writing Voice

Direct. Personal. Story-first, not thesis-first. Uses hyphens with spaces for asides ( - ) not em dashes. Conversational but substantive. Writes to figure things out, not to perform expertise.

## Technical Details

- Built with Next.js App Router, fully server-side rendered — all public content is in HTML, no JavaScript required to read it
- RSS feed: https://nayamoss.com/rss.xml (includes all content types)
- Sitemap: https://nayamoss.com/sitemap.xml
- llms.txt: https://nayamoss.com/llms.txt
- All post content is indexed and publicly readable
- No paywalls on any written content