What happens when a neurodivergent man builds his own brain?

Jon Mick published his MRI, his personality profile, and 63,000 text messages as structured data. A psychologist’s assessment of what he’s building and why it matters.

Jon Mick is 45, lives in Austin, Texas, and has published his brain MRI on the internet.

Not a scan. Not a summary. The full volumetric data—seven analysis pipelines, lobule-by-lobule cerebellar parcellation, thalamic nuclei measurements, cortical thickness maps, and biological age estimates for individual brain structures—all laid out on a website along…