Blog

Notes on technology, work, and other things that keep me curious.

Streaks Are Self-Sustaining

How small acts of consistency turn into momentum, identity, and rituals that sustain themselves.

July 18, 2026 •

Reasons to Celebrate

A wedding in Lisbon reminded me of something essential to every great friendship.

June 23, 2026 •

The Things We Learn to Notice

On stress, hair, and how the brain gets better at finding whatever it keeps looking for.

June 10, 2026 •

The Price of Feeling Capable

AI is making capability feel abundant. That does not mean it will remain cheap.

May 8, 2026 •

A Few Thoughts on Human Data

A brief explanation of what I do for work, and why human data matters.

April 30, 2026 •

You Should Be Dating on Facebook Marketplace

Facebook built a dating tab. One tab over, it accidentally built a better one.

March 7, 2026 •

The Key to Burning Out

A framework for seniority that hopefully resonates with you.

February 9, 2026 •

The Monthly Self-Interview

I recorded myself answering the same questions on the first of every month for the past year. I'd highly recommend it!

January 3, 2026 •

Rebuilding This Site for 2026

Why I traded a custom-built static site for Astro, MDX, and a better way to share technical ideas.

December 28, 2025 •

On Tradition, and How to Make Homemade Pasta

Step by step guide to making homemade pasta every year.

December 27, 2025 •

25

Another reflection on growing older, written at Stella and Fly on the Upper East Side.

October 1, 2025 •

Conversational Baseball

Nine innings with the right people doesn't feel so long. Why is that?

September 18, 2025 •

Coming, Sprinting, Leaving, Learning

Stories told at the end of an era.

September 15, 2025 •

Time Well Spent

What is the shape of your social environment, and what's missing from it?

February 17, 2025 •

Occupational Storytelling

The most important narrative you own is the story of how you can be demonstrably excellent.

January 25, 2025 •

Slingshot

What makes a New Year's Resolution "good"?

December 31, 2024 •

The Click

Learning is built on realizations all the way down.

November 16, 2024 •

Habitual Regret

The only thing that's constant is change, and the feeling that I should have changed sooner.

October 7, 2024 •

24

A reflection on growing older, written at Stella and Fly on the Upper East Side.

October 1, 2024 •

The Unexpected Challenge of Buying Bread

Sesame flour is everywhere, haven't you noticed?

August 11, 2024 •

Hindrances

What prevents us from doing anything at all?

February 8, 2024 •

The Best Stocks to Buy Right Now

Enter the world of automatically refreshing content with AI.

November 19, 2023 •

The Stolen iPhone Playbook

My phone got stolen in New York. Here's what you should do if this happens to you.

November 13, 2023 •

The Birth of a Yoyo → Part 1

Let's talk about how to create one of the most popular toys in the world.

June 25, 2023 •

Capture the Flag

An online, async Capture the Flag game. Hosted on this webpage.

November 21, 2022 •

Why The Links On My Website Turn Pink

Favorite colors and digital breadcrumbs.

January 28, 2022 •

Creating Music Metrics and Modeling Artist Relationships with Spotify's API

I love two things more than anything- music and computer science. Let's use Spotify's API to combine the two! Topics include Music Recommendation, Discography Ranking, creating a Graph of Related Artists, finding the shortest path between two artists, & more!

December 12, 2020 •

I asked 50 strangers to make up a new word. This is my new Internet Lexicon.

Curious to see strangers' creative ability, I went on Omegle and asked 50 participants to create a new word, and tell me what it means.

November 25, 2020 •

The HotPlot- A Fun Way to Prioritize Ideas

Everyone wants a way to prioritize their ideas and side projects, but doing so often feels tedious and unhelpful. Introducing the HotPlot, a way to organize your thoughts that feels right.

July 8, 2020 •

Joyful Kotlin- The Class You Never Knew You Needed

Kotlin is a language that runs on the JVM, is supported (and recommended) for android development, and has extensive syntax support for important concepts like null safety, concurrent / parallel processes and static typing. Why isn't it being taught in more CS curriculum?

June 3, 2020 •

Why You Should Intern At A Startup

Working for a startup may not give you immediate prestige on your resume, but it does teach you valuable opportunities and skills that large companies simply cannot offer.

May 18, 2020 •

The Importance of a Good README

How a well-written GitHub README can make your project more successful.

May 17, 2020 •

Privacy First Contact Tracing, in Layman's Terms

In order to re-open the economy in the fastest and least-damaging way possible, contact tracing applications will play a huge roll. But how do these apps work, and how do they protect our personal information?

May 17, 2020 •