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Founder & lead writer

Harrison Ford

Anchorage, Alaska

I write evidence-first about functional mushrooms, home cultivation, and where psilocybin research and policy actually stand. Less wellness influencer, more lab notebook.

Harrison Ford, founder of Mycology Minded

What I cover

Four beats, one publication.

Functional mushrooms for cognitive performance

Lion's Mane, Reishi, Cordyceps, Chaga, Turkey Tail. What's in the bottle, what works, what's overpriced.

Home cultivation

Kits, substrate, sterile technique, scaling toward grain-to-bulk.

Psilocybin science and policy

State programs, clinical trials, the legal landscape.

Adjacent biohacking

Sleep, supplementation stacks, the systems that make the mushroom layer worth adding.

Background

How I got here.

I'm an independent researcher and builder based in Anchorage, Alaska. I run Fleet Seven Digital — a small digital agency that builds and operates online businesses for clients across the country — and Mycology Minded is the personal venture I've been most invested in for years.

I came to mycology through the side door: cognitive-performance research and an interest in self-experimentation that's stayed safely on the legal side of the line. By 2020 I was reading clinical trial papers as a default. By 2023 I was sketching out what an independent, honest, well-sourced mycology publication should actually look like — one that treated cognition seriously, didn't pretend mushrooms cure anything, and wasn't owned by a supplement brand.

I'm not a doctor, clinician, or credentialed mycologist, and I don't present myself as one. What I bring: a research-first habit, no financial relationships with any supplement brand beyond disclosed affiliate programs, a builder's bias toward systems that work, and a willingness to say when a market-leader product is mostly starch.

How I work

First draft from primary sources.

I write the first draft of most posts on this site. For supplement reviews, that draft is built from primary sources — extraction-method documentation, third-party lab results when publicly available, ingredient-deck analysis, direct comparison against peer products. For research summaries, the draft is built from the actual study, not the press release.

Every article goes through a fact-check pass before publishing. Where the topic crosses into health-claim territory, an outside reviewer with relevant credentials reviews the draft — see the Editorial Process page for detail. Where I get something wrong, I correct it and publish a note. No quiet edits.

Conflicts and disclosures

What I'm paid, and by whom.

Mycology Minded participates in affiliate programs with several mushroom supplement brands, cultivation gear retailers, and psilocybin-adjacent education providers. Those relationships are listed publicly on the Affiliate Disclosure page and noted at the top of every article they appear in.

I do not receive direct payments, consulting fees, or product sponsorships from any brand covered editorially. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed prominently before any covered editorial appears. I don't currently sell my own supplement products.

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