Last updated: April 2026

This is a /now page. It’s what I’d tell a friend I hadn’t seen in a year.

Work

Stepped away from engineering management to focus on something I’ve been deeply interested in: agentic AI. I’m actively researching, exploring, and building in this space — applying it to my own personal assistant agent, my productivity system, and increasingly to how I run my finances and investing. There’s a lot happening here right now, and I want to understand it from the inside by building real things I actually use every day.

Building

  • Homelab — Migrating personal machines into my server rack to get things organized properly. Setting up automated deployment scripts for my services and building out redundant local DNS. The goal is to get the infrastructure to a place where it mostly runs itself.
  • Cortana — A personal assistant agent I’m building to help with weekly planning: taking voice notes and turning them into updated projects and tasks, managing everything in Obsidian automatically. The dream is an agent that keeps me organized without me having to think about it.
  • Writing agent — Working on an agent specifically for drafting blog posts and social media content. Still early, but the idea is to go from rough notes or voice memos to publishable drafts with minimal friction.
  • Life OS — Continuing to refine my personal operating system in Obsidian and making it more explicit and structured so it can serve as input into my agents. The clearer I can articulate how I work, the better my agents can work on my behalf.
  • Investment business plan — Working through what my personal investment practice actually looks like as a business: defining my investment strategies, building a framework for decision-making, and thinking seriously about the structure behind how I want to run my portfolio long-term.

Learning

  • Agent development — how to architect agents, decompose them into skills, keep them current, and design feedback loops so they improve over time
  • Agent memory — exploring tools like mem0 and graph-based memory frameworks; figuring out how to persist context meaningfully across sessions and across different agents and models
  • Obsidian + Claude Code + Open Claw — experimenting with how these tools work together as a unified environment for thinking, building, and executing

Reading

Currently on the nightstand:

  • Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans — Working through both the book and the accompanying workbook exercises. Using it as a structured opportunity for real introspection: applying design thinking principles to figure out what I actually want my life to look like.

Fun

  • Backpacking — Training seriously for a longer trip: PCT Section J from Snoqualmie Pass to Stevens Pass. Getting out regularly in the PNW to build fitness and dial in gear. This one’s a real goal, not just a someday idea.