Wiley Jones

Father, husband, CEO. Building doss.com 

Engineer, midwesterner, unironically self-described post-rationalist searching for whimsy.

Interested in:

• enterprise applications, databases
• electronics manufacturing, semiconductors, solid-state sensors, control theory
• megacities, urbanism, geopolitics, narrative history
• indie music, guitar, scotch, rock climbing

Feel free to reach out by email if you'd like to chat. Writing at blog.wileyjones.com.

CV

• founder of doss.com  (2022-Now)
• Engineer at Petronics (Apple), Verkada, Athelas (2016-2022)
• BS ME/EE - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  (2013-2017)

Projects

• Mousr, the most advanced cat toy ever
• GE423 Mobile Robotics final project
• Nonlinear control theory investigations
• Autonomous vehicle webinar (slides)
• PC and mobile device convergence (slides)
• Twitter API case study

Writing

• Elia Kazan's 'A Face In The Crowd'
  You've got to be a saint to stand the power that box gives you.
• I avoid my intuition, it's usually wrong
  Intuition easily justifies the bad assumptions that thrive in our knowledge gaps.
• Jenga Blocks
  Things fall apart, so we must rebuild them.
• Ecosystem Effect
  A first-principle formalism of the technology strategy that let Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Uber dominate markets. Co-authored by Niraj Pant.
• Notes on Visionaries
  A visionary works to shape current reality to fit their understanding of the future.

What I'm listening to

• Uncharted 2019 (collab playlist)
• My Top Songs of 2018
• 'Blowing Things Up With Our Minds' (collab playlist)
• My Top Songs of 2017
• The Cure — Disintegration (Live at Wembley '89)
• Iconic 80s (91m playlist)
• Currents by Tame Impala
• Chulahoma by The Black Keys
• Relax (90m playlist)
• Renner by SOHN
• My Top Songs of 2016