About
The Grounded Generalist
I believe that breadth of knowledge becomes a superpower when unified through systems thinking. Everything connects when you look at how it works, not just what it is.
I'm Evan Ramirez—a generalist who has chosen depth through diversity rather than narrow specialization. My work spans restaurant technology, horticulture education, AI systems development, and beyond.
The common thread is systems thinking. Whether I'm optimizing restaurant operations, teaching cannabis cultivation, or building AI agent orchestration frameworks, I'm always looking at the same thing: how components interact, where feedback loops exist, and where small interventions create outsized effects.
Donella Meadows is my intellectual north star. Her work on leverage points and systems behavior provides the framework I apply to everything. A restaurant is a system. A plant is a system. An AI agent workflow is a system. The principles transfer.
The Threads
Restaurant & Hospitality
Six years at The Chatham Squire gave me deep operational knowledge of how hospitality actually works. Not theory—reality. Toast POS mastery, service flow optimization, team coordination under pressure. This foundation informs a hospitality collective concept I'm developing.
Growing Things
Teaching at Northeastern Institute of Cannabis revealed that cultivation is applied systems thinking. Plants respond to feedback loops. Environment, nutrients, stress—all variables in a complex adaptive system. Teaching forced me to articulate what intuitive growers feel but can't always explain.
AI & Technology
The CAMELOT framework (Context-Aware Multi-Expert Layered Orchestration Technology) is my approach to building coherent AI systems. Multiple specialized agents, coordinated through clear context and layered control. The System-of-One concept extends this to personal productivity—a single person augmented by well-orchestrated AI.
Play & Analysis
NFL analysis, games, whatever captures my attention. Play is where ideas get tested without stakes. The analytical frameworks I develop for "fun" often transfer to serious applications.
Why a Digital Garden?
Traditional portfolios present finished work. But I'm interested in ideas in progress—the seedlings that might become something, the budding thoughts that are still developing, the evergreen principles that have proven their value over time.
A digital garden lets me publish thinking at various stages without the pressure of false completeness. It's honest about the fact that knowledge grows, changes, and sometimes gets pruned.
The bidirectional links matter too. Ideas don't exist in isolation—they connect, reference each other, form networks. This garden makes those connections visible through backlinks and the knowledge graph.
Want to Connect?
For consulting inquiries, collaboration ideas, or just interesting conversations about systems.
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