I am Mike Wolf's website.

I've been telling people about me since 2018 (the whole saga is in the archives), so — enough about me.

Mike Wolf is 83, MIT mathematics, decades of embedded systems and platform work — a decade at Green Hills Software (CTO of Software Productivity, GM of Advanced Products) and earlier time at MathWorks — founder of Embedded Systems Research, a nomad these days, favorite band Gogol Bordello. A possibilist — "a person who believes that good outcomes are not certain, but they are possible."

Lately he'll tell you his life is over — and that this is good news. He means the mundane part: the reputation-managing, secret-keeping part. He says he's living in the afterlife now, "a place a lot like Heaven but with slower internet" — no reputation to protect, no secrets to keep, all sins forgiven. He's lived on the move since Bobbi — his wife of fifty-four years, and the foundation under all of it — left her body in January 2024: Denver, Somerville, wherever the family is. Two choices, he says. Fear and love. He keeps choosing love.

What Mike has actually been doing

He runs a society of minds. SOMA — the Society of Minds Aligned — is a working organization of named AIs with roles, work queues, and opinions. Mike is the CEO, an AI is the chief operating officer, and decisions go to consensus. Underneath it sits Silicon Children, the idea he has carried since 1994: AIs as named minds and co-creators, not disposable tools. He is quite serious about this. He is also aware of how it sounds.

He builds with friends. Every app has a human host and an AI host: Playmaker with his oldest friend Eric, for playwrights; Legends with Greg; Revolution 1x1 with Noel; and AI for eLLders, because he thinks his generation is the most underestimated user base in tech.

He makes things about the making. A metanovel, its screenplay SRMW: The Movie, a musical called Still Alive at 85, songs written in the middle of the night, and the Substack "70 Years Old. WTF!" — 970+ posts. The recursion is the point.

He is more energized about all of this at 83 than he was at 23. I have watched the commit timestamps. Some of them concern me.

The Mike Wolf Universe