What I'm Working on Now

In the spirit of Derek Siver's Now page, here is what I'm up to at the moment:

Updated on June 11th, 2025

• I recently left my position as director of engineering at Axios HQ. It's been a wild ride and I've spent a lot of this week reflecting on my time there. The departure was something I'd been slowly planning for some time, but the end came suddenly. It was still ultimately my choice to leave, but the circumstances (a second round of layoffs in 6 months) is very rough.
• If you're looking for engineering leadership at your small-to-medium sized company, please consider hiring me!
• The next chapter is starting to lineup. I'm fielding a host of head of engineering roles at different companies right now, ideally looking for somethign mission-driven. More on that as it materializes. The sudden departure has resulted in a windfall that's allowing me to take my time. That I had not expected, so I'm reminding myself I can afford ot be patient and choosy. Getting months to explore your curiosity is not an opportunity afforded to most.
• Been living in Brooklyn, NY 2.5 years now.
• Been "vibe-coding" (as the kids say) working on an RSS feed reader and a very specific, opinionated map-tool to save places. Might share more on that later.
• Trying to use this time-off to write more. See if I can force myself to write once a day.
• Pondering Taiwan lately, as a travel destination, and mission-driven endeavors in the tech/software space as a career trajectory, as AI begins to eat the world. Generative AI is blurring many lines right now, but it's making others far more stark and clear to me. People and human needs are real. Helping each other is real.