Now

This is my now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. It’s a snapshot of what I’m focused on at this point in my life.

Current focus

I have two main focuses right now:

1. Provide for my family while spending as much time as possible with them
2. Build great AI developer tools and platforms that help developers do their best work

Personal

I’m having a great time with my wife, son, and dog in the Pacific Northwest. Currently spending a lot of time playing with my son at parks, playgrounds, and out in nature whenever the weather permits. He is really into music, construction vehicles, and baseball, and constantly blows me away with his memory and curiosity.

Creative work

I’m co-authoring a technical book called Agentic Graph RAG about building enterprise agentic AI systems using graph-based architectures. We’re about halfway through the chapters and it’s been a deep, rewarding project.

I’ve also been writing more regularly on this site. Recent articles include Triaging Ideas When Execution Is Cheap, My Annual Review Process, and The Shitty First Step. I’m also sending more updates out via my newsletter, so be sure to sign up below.

Day job

I’m currently working as a Staff Product Manager at WRITER, an enterprise AI platform. I own our developer and IT admin experience across our AI Studio product, including third-party model integrations, guardrails, observability, the public API, SDKs, developer docs, and framework integrations like LangChain and Strands Agents. I’m also PM’ing two upcoming features — one aimed at vibe coders and one that will be a new full code experience. It’s an intense, fast-paced job but incredibly interesting and engaging. I honestly can’t believe how lucky I am to have a front-row seat to the AI revolution.

Learning

Here’s what I’m currently learning:

• Graph-based agentic AI architectures through the AGR book: tool orchestration, evaluation frameworks, semantic backpropagation, and reinforcement learning techniques for agent self-improvement
• AI agent infrastructure: how agents interact with the real world through things like Model Context Protocol, headless browsers, and structured output engineering
• Building personal AI systems: I’ve been experimenting with AI-powered knowledge work pipelines and exploring how agents can augment creative and strategic work
• Being a good dad to a funny, creative, and rambunctious little boy

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