I'm a creative guy from Pittsburgh, where Boston and Seattle bookended my software startup to big tech journey. I make invisible ideas take shape as visible products, viable services, and cooperative community impact. I've turned failure into success by treating software as the iterative learning game that it always was.
I took a turn toward more personal work from my role at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020, after I read Kai-Fu Lee, Stuart Russell, and Max Tegmark while deciding my heart just wasn't in the work anymore. This made me sad given the history.
I love to chat with people who put community potential above commercial profit, like my clan lurking between CMU in Oakland, Get HipRecords in Manchester, and MCG also next door across the river.
My approach helps humans dwarf diabetes by using AI to build a learning, positive, sensemaking team together in concert. I'm happiest scaling 2 guys-in-a-garage by sizing instead of politicizing pizza teams.