Writing
Musings on building, investing, fatherhood, and whatever's on my mind.
- Running Claude Code as an always-on second brain, reachable from my phone
Every project on this site was built with Claude Code as a second brain. Here is the always-on setup that lets me work the moment an idea shows up.
- A causal simulation of infant sleep risk, and what back-to-sleep advice overlooks
We just had a baby. Somewhere in the late-night feeds I started pulling on the safe-sleep advice, and built a causal simulation to see what the data can actually prove.
- An LLM built a production-grade trading system but couldn't find alpha
In trading, LLMs are very good at the HOW and no help with the WHAT. And by making the HOW cheap, they make the WHAT harder.
- A World Cup bracket pool with an AI advisor and live Monte Carlo odds
My friends wanted a pool. The apps for running one are full of ads. And I barely follow soccer. So I built our own, with an AI advisor to help make the picks.
- Driving organic adoption: a personal stylist app my family actually uses
I built a clothes-curation app for my mother-in-law. The interesting part was the product work -- a zero-friction input and a daily feedback loop -- that got a non-technical family to adopt it on their own.
- InvestorCheck: automating SEC accredited-investor verification
SEC rules make issuers verify that investors are accredited. Today a lawyer reviews tax returns by hand. I built a deterministic, auditable pipeline that does it.
- What it takes to build the platform behind a quant fund
Before Meta I co-founded Theme Analytics, a quantitative hedge fund, and built the platform it ran on. An equal amount of that work was infrastructure, in addition to the alpha.