The Work of Tyler Foos

I’m Tyler Foos—scholar, outdoorsman, crisis responder, generalist, and systems theorist. My work sits at the intersection of crisis response, human behavior, and social infrastructure, and I operate best when I’m translating across disciplines: prototyping a tool, managing data, writing policy, or being dropped into a high-stress situation to figure out what’s actually happening.

I studied psychology, sociology, and philosophy, and completed a master's in forensic psychology—focusing on law, interrogation, negotiation, and the underlying behavioral mechanics of human disconnection. Along the way, I built technical systems for academic centers, responded to mental health crises in the field, managed residential communities during COVID, and started developing design frameworks to fix what I call systemic isolation. It’s both a theoretical problem and a daily one.

Right now, I’m building out a long-form research project called The Making of Isolation, which maps the emotional and cultural roots of modern loneliness and proposes early-stage tools for repair—tools that could be implemented in institutions, tech, or even community systems. Think: dating apps redesigned for introspection instead of commodification. Think: social ecosystems built around needs, not noise.

My goal is to keep building—research, platforms, frameworks, prototypes. I’m not here to polish what’s broken. I’m here to test what might actually work.