Now

This is a /now page inspired by Derek Sivers. It serves as a public declaration of what I’m currently focused on, building, and thinking about.

Last updated: September 2026. Based in Los Angeles.

🛠️ Building Native AI Tools & Software

I spend nights and weekends exploring AI agent workflows, macOS native software, and personal productivity tools:

• EnhancedSkills: Developing a native macOS application to audit, validate, and manage custom AI agent skills across Claude Code and OpenAI Codex environments with automated one-click fixes.
• MacYT: Polishing a SwiftUI desktop media downloader powered by yt-dlp with format selection, subtitle parsing, and SponsorBlock integration.
• Codex Accounts: Monitoring real-time token quotas and rate limits across multiple OpenAI accounts directly from the macOS menu bar.
• KindleWise: Refining highlight extraction pipelines and AI chat interfaces over personal reading marginalia.

💳 Product Management at Affirm

By day, I am a Product Manager at Affirm on the cards platform team. My work centers around:

• Designing and scaling modern card payment experiences and platform infrastructure.
• Partnering with engineering, risk, and compliance teams to ship delightful consumer financial products.
• Studying card rails, authorization mechanics, and fintech systems (see my notes on Anatomy of the Swipe).

📚 Reading

My reading queue focuses on biographies, product strategy, philosophy, and history:

Currently Reading

• Biographies and history (The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson, Steve Jobs in Exile)
• AI hardware stack, chips, and compute strategy

Recently Finished (Recommended)

• Anatomy of the Swipe by Ahmed Siddiqui
• How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

(You can browse my full reading catalog and notes on the Notes page).

✍️ Writing & Thinking

I regularly publish essays on product strategy, AI engineering, and cognitive workflows. Recent essays include:

• PSA: Don’t Outsource Your Writing to AI — Why writing by hand remains essential for original thinking.
• How Cursor Can Win — Strategic analysis of AI-native IDEs and developer workflows.
• The Teleological Trap — Why not everything in life or software needs an explicit purpose.

If you’re building in AI/Fintech or exploring similar ideas, feel free to reach out on X / Twitter.