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Jordan Anthony — Builder

i build into me. turns out that's a whole economy.

The whole body of work, in the open — what's shipped, what's still on the bench, and the mission running under all of it.

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The Story

The line I come from.

Jordan Anthony is a builder out of Cincinnati. Twenty years a competitor on the diamond, scouted at the Division I level, until an injury closed that door — and the fight turned inward.

It's true — we come from the history, but we also get to choose what happens next. That's what he builds on, in the open: the apps, NEXUS, the whole climb. One percent at a time.

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02The Mission — The Big One

Building NEXUS — an atlas of where ideas come from. The map of Black intellectual history nobody's built yet.

Nobody came from nowhere. Every idea has an ancestor. NEXUS traces the lineage — thinker to thinker, argument to argument — so you can walk the whole family tree of a thought and see who it came from. Powered by the ARYA research library underneath.

Current Focus
Interactive Knowledge Graph
Expected Beta
August 2026
Engine
ARYA Research Library
Currently Building Upd. Jul 21
Thinkers mapped156 / 500
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The Work — Shipped

Already live. Open when you want.

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In the Works — Getting Built Now

On the bench, coming into the light.

Keep Building

Coming soon · App Store

The app I open every day — built to build you, not to sell to you. Walk the full preview and get on the waitlist for first access.

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Bag Tracker

Working

Film a round on the heavy bag and it counts every punch off the sound of contact — jab, cross, left and right hook — then renders a black-and-gold clip ready to post. Built with Claude. Last run: 123 punches in 43 seconds. No sensors, just work.

Training · Boxing
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Becoming

Earliest stage

An app about closing the gap between who you are and who you're trying to be. Newest one on the bench — still taking shape. More here when it's real, not before.

Growth · Identity
Paused The Book Club Read the book, then prove you understood it — head-to-head debate, live scorecards. On pause while the energy goes to the apps above.
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Building Log

The work, in the open.

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The Codex

Up there is what I built. Down here is what I think.

Thoughts I couldn't put down till they were on paper. Not takes, not threads. The ones that kept me up.

Paper No. 01 · Essay

The Echo Behind the Eyes

You live every moment of your life alone — no one else inside your thoughts. So why does it never quite feel that way? Who is that, watching from behind your eyes?

01This Is What Lasts
02The Moth's Manifesto
03Alone with All
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More coming The next paper lands here when it's done.
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