This is a now page. Updated January 2026.
Focus
Rethinking everything through the lens of AI right now. What works? What is hype? What is dangerous? What is magic? Have a new role at Snowplow as Director of Applied AI, helping spearhead our organization’s collective answers to these questions.
Location
Living in an 18th century New England farmhouse, somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Reading
Rereading Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain - exploring how this approach works with Obsidian and greatly enhanced with coding agents. Has inspired a host of new /commands for assisting the organization and processing.
Working through Asimov’s Robot series. I finished book five of Foundation at year end, and opted to switch back to I, Robot before moving to Prelude to Foundation. It’s uncanny to reflect on his almost prophetic view of robotics with our current moment in AI.
Chipping away at Gödel, Escher, Bach. Mental exercise to say the least.
Recently finished Practical Doomsday - packed with grounded advice for better resilience in realistic scenarios. Sadly no plans for the Zombie apocalypse, but we will improvise if needed.
Ancient/Future Farm life
Home Assistant - been an avid user for 10+ years, lately going deep.
- voice: Recently set up several RPi voice satellites throughout the house with a personable assistant the kids love. Local-first AI, falls back to a frontier model for extra fun.
- adaptive lighting: Automated many lights throughout the house that follow the sun - adjusting color temp and brightness throughout the day.
- climate: Automated heaters for seed starting, a dashboard tracking oil furnace zones vs. wood stove use (measured by power draw from the fans) vs. external/internal temps.
Wood Shed Didn’t complete it in time for the winter cold, but about 40% through a woodshed that will hold 3.5 of our 8-10 cords of wood right near the home. Will have it ready for the 2026 season.
Chickens Our ~4 dozen birds are doing well. Egg production dropped significantly with the temperatures but my wife enclosed their run in greenhouse sheeting to keep outdoor time dry and warm and we are already back to having enough eggs to sell.
Resilience Whole house batteries are finally installed and collecting solar energy after a bit over a year of back and forth due to the complexities of the… creative… electrical setup we inherited here. Big upgrade for resilience in an area with frequent power outages from the miles of rural power lines surrounded by dead trees!
Beekeeping - 2026 is the year. Officially enrolled in the RI Beekeeper’s Bee School.
Faith
After over a decade in the urban church planting scene, we started attending a traditional Episcopal church to conclude our migration out of the city. Very different from the evangelical world I was brought up in, and though so much is still unfamiliar, so far it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.
It’s a relief to not need to lead or create anything in this area of my life, even at the level of personal reflection and study. Just opening the BCP day after day and getting into the rhythm of the liturgy is surprisingly freeing.
Following the church calendar through Advent and Christmastide was deeply meaningful for the whole family, easily the most significant holiday season we have experienced together.
Not Doing
Not saying yes to much.
Not outsourcing my thinking to AI. Co-Intelligence is my guiding word in this journey.
Not getting stuck in oversharing or chasing followers.