Advancing material progress

I am a builder at heart. Previously, I worked as a mechanical design engineer at Lutron, brought chips to market for Intel, crafted the story for Intel Custom Foundry, and built the product marketing function at Carbon, an advanced manufacturing startup. My career is about progress in the micro: how do you make something better, faster, and cheaper than what exists?

Silicon manufacturing is now in the national consciousness, and it is a bellwether for many industries and issues. Despite silicon’s marvels, it is housing, healthcare, and education that are the most pervasive issues—material issues requiring material progress. Like advanced manufacturing, these material issues are complicated through geopolitics, regulatory policy, and environmental concerns. Through my research and writing about these issues, I hope to educate, inspire, and galvanize the will of the free people of the world to make tomorrow better than today, forever.

Specialization is for insects

On any given day, you could find me analyzing some new piece of tech, writing English or code, watching football/waiting for football to start up again, tinkering on a new project, jamming out in my office, hiking with my wife and dog as we talk about deep tech startups, lifting weights and trying not to aggravate an old back injury, playing some game from my giant backlog, bouncing ideas off actual experts, making my third pot of coffee, trying some new cooking recipe or technique from YouTube, sharing unhinged memes in the DMs, reading just one more Substack because the world is fractally interesting, or planning my next adventure adventure to see cool animals and touch grass.