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 first2026·08·19
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
2014·07·18
New Job
Well the title pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the direction of this blog post, if that doesn't interest you then stop reading... 3 min
The archive, by year
330 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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