Right now.
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 — the personal context layer for AI. Capture once into Stash; every tool reads from the same substrate via MCP — Claude, ChatGPT, Codex. pgvector semantic search, email ingestion via ActionMailbox, a self-hosted mail server on Hetzner, and a Hotwire Native iOS app. A few early users. I'm heavy in it — it's what feeds context into my Claude Code and Codex sessions all day. No folders, no schemas. It just notices things.
Lattice is out — v0.1, open source. Deterministic combinatorial coverage for coding agents. Same math I built at Hexawise, pointed at a different reader. Claude Code and Codex produce plans that look careful and miss the edges they didn't enumerate; Lattice 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. Was quietly profitable, until March Madness blew up the model. Currently clawing back after readjusting for the MLB.
Slop Management — a design experiment 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 project. The core idea: resolution is finite, reality is what's resolved. I've derived the Bloch sphere from first principles and developed a novel argument for state-space smoothness from sub-threshold structure. 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 wishing I was golfing.
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.