Imran Cooper

I'm a writer and technologist. I work where civilizational history, cognitive science, and lived experience meet — building research, frameworks, and books that translate hard ideas into something people can actually use. The book program: Seventeen volumes across three series, in active development. • Historical Apoplexy — a ten-paper civilizational diagnosis. The systemic forgetting of solutions a society once held. From Ibn Khaldun's ʿumrān to Albrecht Penck's 1925 carrying-capacity calculation to the Whitehall mortality gradient. The companion volume After the Diagnosis turns the diagnosis into one-hundred-plus state-and-country policy adaptations. • The Vitruvian Quotient — a scientifically grounded eight-domain human-intelligence framework. No test ceiling, peer-reviewed instruments per quotient, mapped to specific brain regions. Three trade volumes plus eight per-quotient companions. • Memoirs — four volumes. Tall Poppied: Memoirs of the Most Intelligent Poor, The Full Arc, One of the Good Ones, and Tall Poppied: The Coveted Rule of Kindness Culture. Background: Kentucky-raised, twice-dead before kindergarten. Norwich University. Solar permitting across 160+ jurisdictions. Political field campaigns that unseated incumbents. A food startup featured in The Florida Times-Union. A restaurant bought during the worst possible year. Founder of the Sassafras and Maple Research Foundation (Colorado, 2016). My path wasn't linear and the books are the long-form record of what I learned along the way. Also: Founder of The Amanuensis — the writer-platform behind this profile. Custom AI infrastructure, secure hosting, threat detection, and document vaulting for writers who want their work to stay theirs. Direct collaboration, no outsourced teams. theamanuensis.com. If your work touches civilizational policy, intelligence assessment, education, or the question of what an honest civilization would have to remember — I'd like to talk.