I wanted to give better gifts. The bottleneck was never the laser — it was getting clean, engraver-ready art.

The power of AI music genuinely scares me. It also made me cry in a good way more than once.

Most student-org tooling dies the day it's handed off. I built this one for the president who comes after me.

A good trip doesn't happen by accident any more than a good product does. Both get designed.

I don't like podcasts. I do like learning. So I built a skill that gives me the second thing without the first.

Most cold outreach gets ignored because people can smell the template from the first line. I built a tool to fix that.

I used to think "people stuff" was the soft part of the job, separate from the real work. I had it backwards. The connecting is the work.

I keep talking myself into the same position from two directions: deeply uneasy about AI, and completely unwilling to sit it out.

Builder isn't a job title for me. It's the thing I've never been able to switch off, going all the way back to doing yard work with my dad.