About Me

I like technology that makes life easier, raw denim, and black coffee. By day I'm a product leader leveraging AI to help improve education and by night I read, listen to vinyl, and write code. I currently live on a small farm in central Virginia with my two dogs - Baxter and Mayonnaise.

My Reading List


Title Author Status
Vulture Capitalism Grace Blakeley Reading
Spartacus Howard Fast Reading
Black Leopard Red Wolf Marlon James Reading
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism Yanis Varoufakis Completed
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin Completed
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr Completed
The Bright Sword Lev Grossman Completed
Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff, Mark Johnson Completed
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver Completed
Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson Completed
On Bullshit Henry G. Frankfurt Completed
The Black Company Glen Cook Completed
Debt: The First 5000 Years David Graeber Completed
The Creative Act Rick Rubin Completed
Livesuit James S.A. Corey Completed
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Completed
Dracula Bram Stroker Completed
How to Hide an Empire Daniel Immerwarh Completed
Heat 2 Michael Mann + Meg Gardiner Completed
A Teacher's Guide to Conversational AI David A. Joyner Completed
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future Simon Winchester Completed
The Mercy of Gods James S.A. Corey Completed
Ship of Destiny Robin Hobb Completed
Mad Ship Robin Hobb Completed
On the Move Abrahm Lustgarten Completed
Ship of Magic Robin Hobb Completed
Anathem Neal Stephenson Completed
Neuromancer William Gibson Completed
Brave New Worlds Sal Khan Completed
The Burning God R. F. Kuang Completed
The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang Completed
The Poppy War R. F. Kuang Completed
Lives of the Stoics Ryan Holiday Completed
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World Simon Winchester Completed
Death's End Cixin Liu Completed
Ultralearning Scott H. Young Completed
The Dark Forest Cixin Liu Completed
The Big Money John Dos Passos Completed
The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu Completed
The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Completed
Determined Robert Sapolsky Completed
1919 John Dos Passos Completed
The 42nd Parallel John Dos Passos Completed
Mythologies Roland Barthes Completed
Superintelligence: Path, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Completed
Blade of Dream Daniel Abraham Completed
A Collection of Essays George Orwell Completed
The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester Completed
Earth Abides George R Stewart Completed
The Leftovers: A Novel Tom Perrotta Completed
Across the Sand Hugh Howey Completed
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Completed
The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach Completed
The Origin of Storms Elizabeth Bear Completed
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Completed
The Deluge Stephen Markley Completed
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert Sapolsky Completed
The Memory of Light Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson Completed
The Red Stained Wings Elizabeth Bear Completed
The Towers of Midnight Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson Completed
The Gathering Storm Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson Completed
The Half-Life of Facts Samuel Arbesman Completed
The Stone in the Skull Elizabeth Bear Completed
Knife of Dreams Robert Jordan Completed
Age of Ash Daniel Abraham Completed
Agency William Gibson Completed
Crossroads of Twilight Robert Jordan Completed
The Peripheral William Gibson Completed
Winter's Heart Robert Jordan Completed
The Path of Daggers Robert Jordan Completed
A Crown of Swords Robert Jordan Completed
In Praise of Slowness Carl Honore Completed
The Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan Completed
The Gray Man Mark Greaney Completed
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli Completed
Annihilation (Mass Effect: Andromeda, #3) Catherynne M. Valente Completed
The Fires of Heavan Robert Jordan Completed
Levithan Falls James S.A. Corey Completed
The Shadow Rising Robert Jordan Completed
The Dragon Reborn Robert Jordan Completed
The Great Hunt Robert Jordan Completed
The Eye of the World Robert Jordan Completed
Rhythm of War Brandon Sanderson Completed
Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner Completed
We Only Find The When They're Dead: Vol One Al Ewing Completed
Seven Brief Lessons On Physics Carlo Rovelli Completed
Django for Professionals William S. Vincent Completed
Getting Started With Natural Language Processing Ekaterina Kochmar Completed