KALAMAZOO • THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION

Victoria
Mansberger
Schoen

@averagegrades
2 Cats on a Table

I build multidimensional maps.

Not folders. Not trees. Constellations of thought, risk, myth, and coordination.
Strategy and systems by profession. Spatial architectures and mythic systems by vocation.

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THE OBSESSION

I am obsessed
with the
multidimensional map.

SHE / HER
KALAMAZOO, MI

Most tools flatten thought into hierarchies, sidebars, and folders. They turn living complexity into lists and trees that pretend to be neutral. I want interfaces that let thought move the way minds actually work — associative, layered, spatial, constellated. Fluid connections. Pattern recognition. Room for contradiction and emergence.

This is not an aesthetic preference. It is a strategic and philosophical position. Every interface encodes a worldview. Most current ones encode control, extraction, and the fantasy that reality can be fully captured in rigid categories. I am trying to build ones that are honest about the territory.

The same obsession runs through everything I do.

In regulated financial environments I design governance frameworks and evaluation systems that can actually hold operational and institutional complexity instead of pretending it is simple. I have led enterprise-scale UAT strategy, built adopted automation solutions, applied structured process improvement, and developed approaches to assessing AI reasoning and risk.

In my own work I build the spatial knowledge tools I wish existed — living constellations instead of databases. I investigate the layered rendering systems through which we experience reality in the first place. I create mythic archives that treat cultural projections as active forces rather than decoration.

The map is never just a representation. It is a coordination technology. It shapes what can be seen, what can be connected, and what can be acted upon. I am trying to make maps that are worthy of the complexity they attempt to hold.

LINEAGE
Western Michigan University
BA • English, Latin, Women & Gender Studies • Phi Beta Kappa • Magna Cum Laude • 2009 Presidential Scholar in Foreign Languages
Louisiana State University
MFA • Creative Writing (Poetry & Comparative Literature)
Western Michigan University
PhD Coursework • English Literature (2 years completed)
CERTIFICATIONS & STUDY
MIT Sloan — AI: Implications for Business Strategy
eCornell — Business Management Essentials
eCornell — UX/UI Design
Chegg Skills — AI Prompt Engineering
Pragmatic Works — Power Apps App in a Day
CORE FLUENCIES
Strategic Analysis & Risk
AI Governance & Evaluation
Enterprise Process Design
Spatial Knowledge Architecture
Mythic & Archetypal Systems
Human-in-the-Loop Systems
Open Press & Anti-Gatekeeping
Layered Systems Thinking
WRITING

Early maps in language.

“Carne Mal”
“Sex in Motel Rooms”
in Fuck Poems, an exceptional anthology (2011)
“Persephone v Monsanto”
“Audience Participation”
in CumPunk #2
“Container Metaphors”
“The Load Bearing Unit”
Early experiments in mapping bodies, containers, power, and the structures that hold (or fail to hold) us.
THE WORK

Maps, not categories.
Constellations, not trees.

CURRENT OBSESSION

ThoughtMap

A spatial, constellation-style personal knowledge graph. Fluid connections, pattern recognition, game-like aesthetics. Built for how minds actually move — not how folders pretend they move. The living expression of the multidimensional map obsession.

React Flow • Supabase • Spatial UI • Active development

Human Stack

"DevTools for reality." An investigation into the layered rendering systems — Bodies → Perception → Cognition → Language → Culture → Identity — through which we experience and are trapped inside the world. Case files, investigation protocol, Layerbound Manifesto.

Layered systems • Field Index • Manifesto live

The Means of Production

Independent research press investigating the hidden layers that produce ordinary reality — language, myth, institutions, media, bodies. Home of the Capitalist Myths Deprogramming Index and an open press for words without institutional homes.

themeansofproduction.press • Open submissions
🜁

Hollywood Tarot Mythic Grimoire

Hundreds of pages reimagining tarot through the careers, personas, wounds, and mythologies of Hollywood actresses. Six Houses. The Gaze as masculine Majors. A living psychoanalytic and cultural archive of projection and archetype.

Vol. I complete • Masculine Majors live
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Rebel Names

Anticapitalist baby name generator drawing from labor organizers, union militants, communist leaders, and political rebels. Bios included. Names and stories for people who intend to make trouble.

120+ names • Expanding with bios

Look Mom No Hands

Open creative platform and community for AI builders and makers. No gatekeeping on credentials, budget, or connections. Feed, drops, credit economy earned through engagement. Room for all.

Built in one session • Live & evolving

More experiments and prototypes on GitHub • editor-beep

THE THRESHOLD

This is not a landing page.
It is an invitation to think in maps.

I am interested in collaborations that refuse false binaries between rigor and soul, between institutional strategy and mythic imagination, between the map and the territory. If you are also obsessed with building interfaces that can hold more, I want to hear from you.

VICTORIA MANSBERGER SCHOEN • KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
CURRENTLY BUILDING: ThoughtMap — the living multidimensional map • Expanding Human Stack investigations • Maintaining the open press