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 26th, 2025

• Wrote a blog post about OpenAI and audio transcriptions that hit the frontpage of Hacker News for a couple of days! Got a lot of traffic as you would imagine, a couple of intersting inquiries and some new newsletter sign-ups. Oh and this very funny exchange with Andrej Karpathy which led to the "unsolicited endorsements" section I decided to sneak into the footer of my site.
• 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 the immediate weeks after reflecting on my time there.
• However, I recentyl accepted an offer to work with Recidiviz! I start in August and am very excited. They first showed up on my radar a couple years ago when I leanred about them through a podcast.
• That said, if you're looking for engineering leadership at your small-to-medium sized company in the interim or on a consulting basis, please consider hiring me!
• Been living in Brooklyn, NY 2.5 years now.
• Still trying to use this time-off to write and explore more. See if I can force myself to write once a day.
• I'll be in Portland soon playing a 25-year reunion show with my jazz-fusion band from the early 2000s (!!). That will be a blast.
• Considering traveling somewhere after that before I start work again. Was considering Taiwan. Greenalnd entered the picture at the last minute. Still undecided, but I'd like to go somewhere to wander and reset.