About me

I’m a builder and investor focused on AI, software, and long-term technology shifts.

I started my career as a Marine Corps officer, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, then spent the next decade in startups and product leadership at a public tech company. Today, I spend most of my time researching AI, building prototypes, and investing.

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Current project

I’ve been trying different habit tracking apps on and off for over a decade.

When I was a product manager I even went so far as to write my own little GitHub script that would make a commit whenever I used my own product to hold myself accountable. It was clunky but worked.

I reached 900+ days of using my own product because I wanted to deeply feel what customers did, and I did. It led to meaningful, compounding improvements in the product and we grew it from inception to ~$100M ARR in 5 years.

Suffice to say, habits are important to me. But what does AI-native habit tracking look like?

The best habits are the few high ROI ones that meaningfully impact your life and that you don’t have to track anymore, either because tracking is automated or you’ve internalized the behavior.

How do we learn what actually works for you so you can finally make progress on the goals you keep coming back to?

That’s what I’m working on. I’ve been dogfooding it myself over the last year to find what works, and I’m pretty excited about it.

See other things I’ve worked on in Projects.

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Current rabbit hole

I’ve been working on various AI products over the last few years, so I’d like to better understand how AI works at a fundamental level.

To help, I’m re-learning math and working up to the math for machine learning course with Math Academy, a friend’s startup. See my progress here.

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Talks

• Growing WordPress by Reducing Complexity & Fragmentation – WordCamp Phoenix 2020
• The Future of WordPress: Reducing Fragmentation & Complexity – WordCamp Long Beach 2019

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Projects

See some of the things I’ve made here.