JD and complex systems builder.

I build systems and write about what they break. The systems are reshaping law, education, and how we read. I'm inside each one. The throughline, if I had to name one, is the seam between things people insist on keeping separate. Law and software. Literature and the internet. New tools meeting old institutions.

For my day job I'm an AI Solutions Architect at Thomson Reuters, where I help attorneys and federal agencies actually use the tools that are reshaping their profession. On nights and weekends I work on Simon, an autonomous trading system I built mostly to see if I could build something that learns from its own mistakes without lying to itself about them. I also co-founded and run The Olive Branch Review, a writing platform for people who want to be read by other people, not by an algorithm.

Before all that, I went to Suffolk Law, where the clinical program let me build a docketing tool the Massachusetts Appeals Court adopted, and before that the University of Rochester, where I studied English and Computer Science and worked in admissions, which turned out to be the most useful training for everything I have done since.

Outside any of that: my wife, our two dogs, and a horror movie group I catch the newest releases with. I read more than I should and write more than I publish. Most of what I love is built on craft of some kind. The novel that knows exactly what kind of reader it's trapping. The horror film that earns its scares from character rather than cuts. The album that doesn't waste a second. I am, as a result, very hard to please and very easy to fall in love with something new.

I live in Rochester. The winters are bad and the city is interesting and the food is better than people give it credit for.