Now
This is my /now page — a snapshot of what I’m focused on right now. Inspired by nownownow.com, it’s what I’d tell a friend I hadn’t seen in a year.
Building
Running probes at the intersection of AI, interfaces, and physical computing — small experiments asking “what if?” I share what I find here and in my newsletter, Off My Board — signals I’m tracking, experiments worth talking about, and what I learn along the way. Some probes turn into something worth sharing. Others teach me what doesn’t work. Both matter.
Day Job
Director, Metadata and Digital Platforms at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. (Views on this site are my own — this is independent of that role, not a representation of the institution.)
Thinking About
How we maintain humanity as technology accelerates. What gets lost when we optimize everything. The difference between tools that feel human and tools that feel hollow. Whether the soul that exists in all software is something we put there intentionally or something that leaks in around the edges.
Reading
Right now I’m working through The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder — a 1981 book about building a minicomputer that reads like a thriller and feels remarkably relevant to everything happening with AI right now. Also dipping into Thinking, Fast and Slow for the third time, which keeps revealing new things. And too many AI research papers, as always.