Professional Interests

Here are a few areas I’ve worked in past or present:

Community Leadership – I’ve had the chance to start clubs, be a teacher, gather groups of friends, volunteer for my neighborhood, organize online communities and mobilize a county-scale disaster response effort. When I was younger, I always had a knack for rounding up all the neighborhood kids to go on adventures together. I’m generally interested in assembling groups of people around shared goals for the benefit of the many.

Computing, AI & Machine Learning – I grew up building computers, had a summer job modelling gold nanoclusters with super computers and took a machine learning course by Andrew Ng in 2018. I’ve generally followed developments in the space since then. While working at Reciprocity we adopted agentic coding frameworks to move faster and since then I’ve had a chance to interface with agentic search and coding tools every day. Over the last several months I’ve been learning about how to Engineer AI Applications & have managed to vastly improve personal workflows via dererministic programs and agent coordination.

Upgrading Government & Nonprofit Services – In March 2020, I became a co-founder of www.mycovidresponse.org. This humble little website grew into a grassroots disaster response effort that has, at the time of this writing, helped coordinate bulk movements of ppe, grassroots public health campaign, over a dozen smaller programs, and in partnership with Lighthouse of Michigan, Oakland University, Pontiac Community Foundation, and dozen other partners. In September 2020, we incorporated Reciprocity, to bring our software development approach to others. Along the way we connected with Civilla, Connect211, Open Referral, NeighborLink, HelpLink, and many others. Agentic coding tools like Gemini, ClaudeCode, and Replit dramatically accelerated our roadmap.

I sold my stake in Reciprocity at the end of 2025, but am always interested in how we can build better institutions to support future generations.

Climate Change – Because of Temporal Comparative Advantage, it seems likely that Climate Change is one of the most important issues to be working on. Project Drawdown has a good macro-level view for climate solutions. I’ve helped work on an environmental nonprofits called Plant Chicago, and Carbon Neutral Indiana.

If you are a founder, investor, individual or organization working on climate, I’d love to hear what you’re working on. If you’re interested in career opportunities take a look at Lowercarbon Capital, Work on Climate, ClimateBase, and MCJ. Chris Wedding also runs a great newsletter covering different environmentally conscious CEO’s

General Industry Manufacturing - I started my career in a Leadership Rotation program learning about every department of Henkel’s North American General Industry Segment for Adhesive Technologies. When I got into sales and key account management, my job was like an episode of How It’s Made. Every day I’d go into different factories or help engineers and maintenance people from various industries to solve problems using Henkel’s suite of offerings. I’ve seen everything from medical devices, locomotive engines, cars, tractor trailers, agricultrual equipment, wind farm components, light and heavy electronics, food products and all of the component parts of each final assembly being made.

During my time in working at Henkel I had the chance to work in General Sales, Work as a Sales Engineer, OEM Specialist, and Key Account Manager while recieving high quality sales and negotiation training.

Organization Design – How do we design organizations, civilizations, and collective groups of people to accomplish goals large and small?