Career
January 2022
Joining Ought to lead their engineering team.
January 2021
Teespring becomes Spring 🙌
January 2015
Join Teespring as Engineering Manager
January 2014
Aqui-hired into Square to build their Payroll product.
January 2011
Pivot WebMynd to become Trigger.io: a developer tools platform. Now open-sourced at LibreForge.
January 2008
Co-found a knowledge assistant startup called WebMynd. Join Y Combinator's winter '08 batch.
2005 – 2007
Software engineering @ IBM
June 2005
Finish Computer Science Tripos at Cambridge.
Yes, thank you for noticing! I do try to arrange for major life events to happen in January. This is for simplicity and ease of remembering.
Outside of tech
I’m a hobbyist woodworker, I’m learning to speak Catalan, I like hiking up hills and mountain biking down them. I play the trumpet poorly, and I’m getting worse every day. I enjoy hard problems and learning new things with which to solve them.
My current interests include:
- AI alignment
- Effective altruism, especially the strong long-termist perspective
- Atomic Habits
I live in Oristà , a micro-village in rural Catalunya. My wife, Odette, is an author and creativity coach. Together, we operate an artist’s retreat called Cel del Nord.
Contacting me
I would love to hear from you if:
- You liked something I’ve posted on this blog
- You didn’t like something I’ve posted on this blog
- You’re working on something I seem to be interested in
- You’d like to work together
I’m not looking for career opportunities, so please don’t contact me if you’re a recruiter. Thanks!