On the record
| Day job | Alexa+, Amazon |
| Council | IPAC, Penn State College of IST |
| Philanthropy | Berardi Student Engagement Center |
| Open source | Fluent Cassandra, and others |
| Available for | Talks, panels, advisory |
Elsewhere
The position
AI is going to change every aspect of how we look at life. I am here for all of it — on the condition that we build it to enhance the human race rather than to quietly replace it. The long version →
Writing
Nineteen years, newest first2026·08·24
New Model Drop: U.ai 2.3 the most ambitious model yet
Every week another model ships. This one doesn't show up on any charts 5 min
2026·08·19
The Product Is Also the Research Instrument
Everyone already agrees experimentation matters. What's different about the AI companies right now is they turned the experiment itself into a customer-research operation running at a scale nobody's had access to before. 3 min
2026·08·04
The Migration I Kept Avoiding
An AI agent finally moved my old Ghost blog to Hugo, a migration I had been putting off for years. 4 min
2026·07·29
Twelve Years Later
Twelve years ago I wrote a post about moving to Seattle to join Amazon, and then I never wrote another one. Here is what happened in between: two cross-country moves, four teams, and a job that grew from one desktop client to the platform behind Alexa. 5 min
The archive, by year
331 posts · 394 tags · every original URL intactEleven quiet years. I was busy building things I could not write about. The magenta bar is now.
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