After two decades building AI and software products at Microsoft, Facebook, Stripe, and startups, I’m now building tools that help people engage more deeply with the world. My work sits at the intersection of AI, travel, storytelling, and human curiosity.

Limestone karsts rising from Halong Bay, Vietnam

Featured Projects

Repuzzled

Repuzzled

A spaced repetition learning app with a Chrome extension for retaining what you read.

From the Essays

Why Building On LLMs is a Gold Rush

May 2023

It's the limitations of LLMs, not their capabilities, that are powering the startup opportunity.

Reading 12 Books at Once

May 2023

On the practice of reading many books simultaneously as a thinking exercise.

A Vision for Feather Software

March 2022

A manifesto for building bootstrapped, human-first AI tools that serve user intentions rather than ad-driven engagement.

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