AI didn't free me up. It made me busier.
Everyone is concerned that AI is the end of work, but I've found it makes me even busier.
Read essay →Strategy and operating background, currently spending more time in the trenches with the AI-and-data stack. This is where I keep the work, the writing, and the things I'm thinking about.
Which city departments are falling behind on 311 requests — and is the problem getting worse? A staffing intelligence dashboard built from public data.
When a wildfire ignites, the data exists within minutes — NASA satellites, NOAA weather stations. The bottleneck is synthesis. EmberBrief translates live fire and weather feeds into plain-language situation briefings, automatically.
An automated pipeline that tracks feature launches, pricing changes, partnerships, and architectural shifts from 15 data integration companies — extracted daily by Claude and surfaced in a live filterable feed.
A full technical analysis dashboard for the S&P 500 — candlestick chart with moving average overlays, RSI and MACD indicator panels, and a plain-English signal summary built from end-of-day market data.
Everyone is concerned that AI is the end of work, but I've found it makes me even busier.
Read essay →My personal experiences working with AI tools to increase personal productivity and build side-projects.
Read essay →A working theory of where defensibility shows up in the AI-native data stack — and where it stops being interesting.
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