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Philosophy & practice

Egor Temnik

I study how understanding becomes a way to act.

I am the author of God and the auditor and the creator of BOIS, Pravda, M1/M3, and MaOS. My work brings together philosophical inquiry, the design of organizations, and experiments with AI.

I am interested in the mind at work: how we notice a problem, decide what matters, form an explanation, and turn what we learn into something we can do. I develop this inquiry through texts, models, rules, and projects that others can examine and adapt.

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Think clearly.
Design carefully.
Learn by doing.

Egor Temnik · temnik.com

01 / Philosophical inquiry

Questions that change how we act

For me, philosophy begins with the distinctions that shape a decision. What is the actual situation? What do we know about it? Which part is an assumption? Whose purposes are being served, and who takes responsibility for the consequences? These questions belong inside the work itself.

I explore how values, knowledge, and action can be brought into a coherent process. A useful explanation should help someone see what to examine next, what would count as a result, and what new experience might require them to reconsider.

02 / Practical design

Ideas meet materials, people, and time

My practical interests include woodworking, digital manufacturing, and the organization of small enterprises. In developing these project concepts, I work through the connection between the intended product and the people, equipment, materials, time, and resources needed to produce it.

I pay particular attention to the complete working cycle: how a request becomes a task, how the work is carried out and checked, and how the organization restores its capacity for the next task. This is where abstract design meets maintenance, coordination, and the everyday conditions of useful work.

03 / Human judgment

Tools that support thoughtful action

I approach AI as a medium for organizing inquiry and testing ways of working. In BOIS and the M1/M3 designs, I make evidence, assumptions, open questions, memory, and responsibility explicit. The aim is to help people understand the basis of a decision and remain active participants in making it.

I am also interested in cooperation that creates value for its participants. A worthwhile system should produce something useful while preserving people's ability to think, choose, learn, and continue their work.

04 / Work to read and use

A book, a method, and room to explore

God and the auditor brings these questions together in an introduction and detailed system designs. MaOS explores a related set of questions through a settlement-management game: limited knowledge, competing needs, and decisions whose consequences carry forward.

I share the book freely so that others can read it, question it, try its ideas, and develop applications of their own. The work continues through new editions, practical trials, and conversations about what the ideas make possible.

05 / Contact

Letters and proposals

For letters, proposals, project inquiries, and privacy requests, write to admin@temnik.com.

Please avoid sending passwords, payment-card details, or other unnecessary sensitive information by email.

The connected work

01

God and the auditor

The introduction and detailed designs in one free book.

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02

BOIS

The approach connecting questions, action, experience, and continuation.

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03

MaOS

A separate application explored through a settlement-management game.

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