I am a creative. I believe creativity fuels all progress.1
In more exact terms, I am a product person. I am drawn to both uncovering problems, and to building useful and novel products that solve them.
I am curious about how we can optimize our exploration of the unknown, how we can most effectively deploy and scale products to build a more equitable world, and how we can unlock value in solutions to problems — including problems people are not even aware they have.
I’m scrappy but incredibly detail-oriented, and I enjoy making shape out of ambiguity.
Currently, I'm a Product Manager at Google, building on the Google News team. A few things I’ve done that I’m proud of:
Built and scaled the product and product function at Column. Read more about my takeaways here, and read a few articles about my work here and here and here.
Dropped out of college to work at the New York Times.
Worked at Harvard after graduating in the computer science department’s product design and management course.
Spent a summer at Disney working in product.
Read (almost) all of Virginia Woolf’s diaries.
I am excited about building a better world that right now only exists in our imaginations, and I think it’s pretty cool that technology enables us to do just that at a quicker pace than we can even dream about.
I’m proudly from Kansas and currently exist in the Boston area.
While the word “creative” might seem frivolous, I believe it is one of most important skills a person can possess. The purpose of creativity, per its definition, is to build something that is both novel and useful. ↩︎