current
2022–present
- Tonk: portable data substrate for humans and their tools to think together
from 2022–2025, Tonk operated as an applied cryptography lab and was active in the autonomous worlds scene.
designing sociotechnical systems
more technical: 2015–2021
- Airbnb: design technologies; intelligent design systems
- Deco Software: open-source React Native IDE
more social: 2018–2022
- Willow Common Studio: neighborhood art and design collective
- Won't 2 Can't: risograph printed comic books (parts 1 & 2), collaboration with Hi-Bred via Cold Cube Press
- Zine Machine: open access 3d-printed hand press
- Gestalte: circular and humanist industrial design studio
prior work
early 2010s
- Yahoo: scalable machine learning engineer (CIKM '16, SIGIR '16)
- Neustar UltraDNS: distributed systems engineering
- Beckman Institute: data analytics, signal processing
writing
- End of the Internet: After the death of the first internet, lots of tiny new internets will grow up in its place.
talks & appearances
- Ink & Switch Event: vibe coding, the IDE as slot machine
- AI Tinkerers Prague: building malleable LLM software
- Zero Knowledge Podcast: local-first with grjte and goblin oats
- Autonomous Worlds Assembly: world secrets & mystery digital physics workshop
external reading
- Dynamicland
- Malleable Software
- Power of Simplicity
- Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell
- The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
- Against The Coasean Singularity
- Hayek's Revenge
- Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
- pastagang plans
- Library of Agnes (with links to other libraries)