The thing I'm most obsessed with right now is how we talk to machines. We're still in the typewriter era of AI — almost everything happens through a chat box, and that's not how humans actually want to interact with another presence. The real interface is voice, back-and-forth, knowing when not to say something. I'd like to spend my life building toward something like a holodeck.

I studied computer engineering, worked as a front-end developer, eventually taught myself design, and now I'm the head of design at Saga — where I was the first hire. Before Saga, the moment I got to university, I started a company called Brieferr with all of my savings from my allowance.

Brieferr failed. But that year was the most instructive of my life. It's how I found my first job as a front-end engineer, and more importantly, it's how I made lifelong friends. One of them is now my partner, and we've been building things together ever since.

I've spent the past two years as a digital nomad — a winter in Asia, a lot of slow travel, a lot of remote work, a lot of interesting people. I think I'm finally tilting toward Amsterdam.

I've played piano since I was a kid. Neither of my parents play, but my mom is a music enthusiast, so the house was always full of instruments. It's still my favorite way to be quiet.

I write — essays and notes here, journals everywhere, and lately some wholesome sci-fi I haven't published yet. The wholesome part matters. I want to write the kind of futures I'd want to live in.