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 on this site and through 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.
Working On
At Baker Library, Harvard Business School, I’m leading AI transformation — helping knowledge experts navigate what’s possible with emerging tools while staying grounded in what matters: helping people find what they need. It’s part research, part infrastructure, part culture change. The work is genuinely hard and genuinely interesting.
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.