Now

Updated March 2026. Living in Asbury Park, NJ.

Work

VP of Engineering & AI at Skillit. Small team, Rails monolith, AI hiring platform for ENR 500 construction firms. Day-to-day is split between product strategy, building AI features, and trying to hire a product engineer who actually wants to work on hard problems in an unglamorous industry. If that sounds interesting, reach out.

Building

stash.bar is in beta. AI-native personal knowledge management — pgvector semantic search, email ingestion via ActionMailbox, a self-hosted mail server on Hetzner, and a Hotwire Native iOS app. A few early users. The philosophy is awareness as product, not memory as feature: zero cognitive load, no folders, no schemas. It just notices things.

Lattice is in early development under the nolook.ai brand. It started as combinatorial test generation (my Hexawise background) but it's evolving into something more interesting — using combinatorial expansion to find blind spots in specs before Claude Code runs with them. Specs have blind spots. This finds them.

The trading system is live and running. Sports betting arbitrage and +EV identification on Kalshi, position-sized with Half-Kelly, edge-based exit logic. Python, TheRundown API, a two-dimensional book configuration system. Quietly profitable, mostly automated.

Slop Management — a content brand about AI-generated technical debt. Waste Management parody concept, "Got Slop?" tagline. This one's mostly for fun.

Research

Working on Allocation Mechanics — a quantum foundations research programme. The core idea: resolution is finite, reality is what's resolved. I've derived the Bloch sphere from first principles and found a novel argument for state space smoothness from sub-threshold structure. Claude and ChatGPT rated it publishable. Currently reading Dakic-Brukner (2009) and writing Paper 1.

I also spent a few weeks thinking about whether fractions are real or just cognitive compression tools. Still not sure.

Reading

• How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg (again)
• arXiv papers on quantum foundations and information-theoretic reconstructions
• Dakic & Brukner, "Quantum Theory and Beyond: Is Entanglement Special?" (2009)
• Whatever's on the Rails edge changelog

Life

House hunting in Monmouth County with Rose. Frequenting Cafe Volan and Life Time. Watching the Knicks and too much March Madness.

Not doing

Entity Zero (the autonomous agent platform) is shelved. The vending machine idea is dead. I'm getting better at putting things down.

Did not buy a Mac Mini. Have not installed OpenClaw.