This is a now page. Updated June 2026.
Focus
Rethinking everything through the lens of AI right now. What works? What is hype? What is dangerous? What is magic?
After 6 years in SRE at Snowplow I have moved to Director of Applied AI, helping spearhead our organization's collective answers to these questions.
Location
Living in an 18th century New England farmhouse, somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Reading
Finished Asimov's Robot series and moved on to the Galactic Empire trilogy which bridges between Robots and Foundation. The finale, Robots and Empire, was my favorite of the Robot books. The impact of Asimov’s artificially intelligent robots (and their positronic brains) on humanity was fascinating. You sort of a classic "have/have-not" divide between the prosperous, longevity-obsessed, robot-loving, individualistic Spacers and the suspicious, almost xenophobic, anti-robot masses of the Settlers. Without any spoilers, it's encouraging me even more to keep AI as a tool and not a crutch.
Also picked up A Pattern Language - someone recommended it and I cannot remember who! Not a normal read for me, but oddly enjoyable. Starting to see these patterns everywhere, and intend to lean on this for a future home-office build.
Speaking of longevity-obsessed, I am working through Outlive as I aim to enter middle age with a more stable health foundation. Not sold on everything for sure, but it's still helping to shape my perspective and priorities as I step into the next decade.
A Philosophy of Software Design is the right tech book for me in this current season of close to 100% Agentic programming, using the ideas to shape better designs for AI agents to execute on.
Ancient/Future Farm life
Home Assistant - been an avid user for 10+ years, lately going deep.
- voice: gutted the assistant's brains this spring. The RPi satellites now run a fully local pipeline on the Mac Studio: Whisper large-v3-turbo for STT, Kokoro for TTS, and Gemma 4 E4B as the brain. Round trip is under a second and nothing leaves the machine. The grumpy 18th century butler personality survived the surgery, and the kids still can't stop provoking him.
- adaptive lighting: Automated many lights throughout the house that follow the sun - adjusting color temp and brightness throughout the day.
Local AI - it's a daily driver for much of the family now. The workhorse is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on llama.cpp, a hybrid MoE that is 35B parameters with only 3B active per token, so it runs a blazing ~60 tok/s on the M4 Ultra 128GB. One copy of the weights in memory serves chat, coding, and agent work on three separate ports. Wrote about the original build here.
Chickens Lost a couple of birds to a raccoon who keeps finding new ways into the run. The fight continues. A new batch of chicks arrives soon.
Beekeeping - and we're off! Bee School with my 12 year old was fun, but when our two packages of 10,000 bees each arrived I realized I still had almost no idea what to do. 8 weeks of drinking from the firehose will do that. I loaded the course's slideshows and YouTube playlists into NotebookLM, used it to build our schedule, and now have an on-demand assistant that pulls from our teacher's own content. Two hives (Italians and Carniolans) are four weeks in and looking good: lots of comb, brood, and honey. The first brood started hatching last week, so their numbers are growing steadily after the initial three week dip.
Faith
After a decade and a half in the urban church planting scene, we are now members of a traditional Episcopal parish, confirmed by the Bishop of Rhode Island this June. The daily office, the Anglican rosary, the Sunday liturgy: these rhythms are home now.
After years of leading and building in church life, it's a relief to just show up and pray.
Not Doing
Not saying yes to much, too many years of split focus.
Not outsourcing my thinking to AI. Co-Intelligence is my guiding word in this journey.