I’m a classically trained graphic designer with a background in construction, printmaking, and photography. I came up in New York in the late eighties and nineties, which gives me a particular lens on creativity and craft.

I got into code because I like holding the full thing in my hand. Not for the first time in my career, I saw that a new set of tools was coming for my job, so I made it my business to get out ahead of it early, deeply adopt, find the edges, and figure out the new workflow. Darkroom to digital. X-Acto and rubber cement to Photoshop. Learning to code so the construction was mine. Now AI.

Three years of daily practice. I found that AI tools create five structural problems for creative work: they flatten your voice, they collapse evaluation into a single score, they lose your thinking between sessions, they demand structured input before you’ve finished having the thought, and they’re designed to replace your judgment entirely. I built the fix for each one.

The work. The thinking. The practice.