Writing
Essays from the last few versions of my life.
AI, food, travel, failure, and the thing that happens when you keep making things after most of them do not work.
Start here
The software night market is probably the center of it.
AI and entrepreneurship
The Software Night Market: AI and the Future of Creation
Street food, popup restaurants, and why AI might let software get stranger and more personal.
Read on Substack
Travel and culture
Ever Been Homesick for Somewhere You're Not From?
Landing in Paris after months in Asia and realizing the feeling was homesickness.
Bali and belonging
Bali Grabs You
A two-week trip that kept extending, and what Bali's rootedness can teach the rest of us.
AI and foraging
A Forager's Guide to AI
Mushrooms, risk, creativity, and why AI feels like finding food in the woods.
Reinvention
Second Life
Leaving Oakland, learning to ride motorbikes, and becoming an AI developer at 44.
Creative work
Most of My Ideas Don't Work
The part no one likes to say out loud. Most ideas fail. You make them anyway.
Vision
The World I Work to Create
A world where people make the thing only they can make, for the few people who truly care.