Now
What I'm focused on at the moment.
Updated August 2026 · Upper West Side, New York.
Settling in
We moved to the Upper West Side this summer, and most of life right now is the good work of making a new place home — new routines, new bodega, new running order for the weekend. It was a summer of getting out of the city too: the Berkshires, the Poconos, and the Rhode Island coast.
Sticking my head up
After a few heads-down years, I'm deliberately looking around: getting genuinely current on AI and agentic tools — not headlines, hands on keys — and thinking honestly about what the next chapter of work should look like. The day job is leading product engineering at The Tie; the workshop is a small fleet of consumer apps I build to keep my hands in the clay.
Reading
Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson — tactics for management and company building from Stripe's former COO. Reading it the way you read a book that describes your actual job. The running log lives on the nightstand.
Playing & watching
EA FC and Spider-Man 2, mostly with friends — gaming has always been a social thing for me. And now that Manhattan is right outside the door, I've been going to the movies a lot more. The habit is the point; the showtimes are negotiable.
In the kitchen
Nothing ambitious lately — just the old reliables on rotation. Next up: tres leches. The keepers land in the recipe box.
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