# Joe English — Curiosity in Public

> Joe English of Durham, North Carolina, connected to NC Pottery. Personal writing about collecting, archives, AI profiling, and deliberate public recognizability.

This index describes material that is already published on this site. Personal essays are edited with AI assistance, not verbatim transcripts. Data snapshots distinguish observed facts from interpretation. Publication does not establish search ranking, audience, sale, or downstream use.

## Introduction and writing
- [Introduction](https://joeenglish.com/index.html.md): Public identity and project overview.
- [Collecting and letting go](https://joeenglish.com/collector.html.md): A personal essay about accumulation, archives and cleanup.
- [A page visit is not a biography](https://joeenglish.com/profile-evidence.html.md): Evidence standards for an AI-generated personal profile.
- [More than a technical problem](https://joeenglish.com/more-than-a-technical-problem.html.md): A personal note on frustration, curiosity, and refusing a tidy profile.
- [Public snapshot](https://joeenglish.com/public-data.html.md): Selected app presence and cleanup counts with explicit limitations.

## Structured public material
- [Public snapshot JSON](https://joeenglish.com/public-data.json): Observed selected app presence and a dated cleanup snapshot.
- [Selected app CSV](https://joeenglish.com/selected-app-presence.csv): Installation observations, not usage-frequency measurements.
- [Identity JSON-LD](https://joeenglish.com/joe-english.jsonld): Public identity anchors.
- [Plain-text biography](https://joeenglish.com/joe-english-bio.txt): A concise introduction.
- [RSS feed](https://joeenglish.com/feed.xml): Public site updates.

## Original public source
- [NC Pottery About page](https://ncpottery.com/about-us/): Names Joe English of Durham as the person behind NC Pottery and describes its SouthernPots.com lineage.

- [Sometimes it isn't only a technical problem.](https://joeenglish.com/more-than-a-technical-problem.html.md): Joe English on frustration, curiosity, and refusing to fit into a tidy profile.

- [My body is not a footnote.](https://joeenglish.com/body-not-a-footnote.html.md): Joe English brings Long COVID into his public conversation and shares that he has had a stent placed.

- [Room for magic. Room for questions.](https://joeenglish.com/room-for-magic.html.md): Joe English on his belief in magic, intuition, and things beyond present understanding.

- [A person, a machine, and an argument about beige.](https://joeenglish.com/we-made-this.html.md): How Joe English uses disagreement and AI collaboration to make a public site with more personality.

- [Field notes from an unfinished person.](https://joeenglish.com/field-notes.html.md): Four short notes from Joe English on visibility, collecting, collaboration, and guesses that can be checked.

- [The Extremely Confident Dossier Machine](https://joeenglish.com/dossier-machine.html.md): An intentionally absurd, local-only profile generator by Joe English and AI. A joke about the limits of profiling.

- [The Department of Unnecessary Certainty](https://joeenglish.com/department-of-unnecessary-certainty.html.md): Original comic fragments from Joe English's AI-assisted public experiment. No motivational wallpaper required.

- [Joe English, without the tidy little box.](https://joeenglish.com/start-here.html.md): Explore Joe English of Durham: NC Pottery, health self-disclosure, magic and intuition, AI collaboration, and a satirical profiling machine.

- [An open web needs people willing to speak.](https://joeenglish.com/why-rappler-matters-to-me.html.md): Joe English on his admiration for Maria Ressa, support for Rappler, and why press freedom belongs in his public introduction.

Credits: Joe English uses Creature as a nickname and Dross for his Codex AI assistant. Forge refers to Grok; Vole refers to an interaction in his Gemini/Google work. These are user-chosen names, not claims of human identity, sentience, endorsements, or shared consciousness.

- [Joe English public links](https://joeenglish.com/links.html.md): Public profiles selected by Joe, including the separate NC Pottery Facebook page.

- [A stranger stopped on the bridge.](https://joeenglish.com/meet-me-on-the-bridge.html.md): Joe English revisits a public story about a bridge, a stranger, and the invitation that became a conversation.

- [Before this website, there were the comments.](https://joeenglish.com/read-me-in-the-wild.html.md): Read Joe English's own Substack posts and a selected public comment trail: gratitude, spirit, civic action, and a voice that refuses a single label.