What I'm doing now

This is a Now page and was last updated Oct 3, 2026

Questions

There are a few questions I’m particularly invested in right now:

• How should we treat “domains” when investigating expertise? How do we individuate them? What about relationships between them (hierarchical, overlapping, etc.)?
• What do we make of domains with different characteristics of performance? Compare a seconds-long sprint to a months- or years-long novel.
• What makes transfer between different domains more or less effective?
• How universal is attentional fluidity as a component of expertise?
• What are the factors of expertise that can be most developed most quickly? What do the tradeoffs between components of expertise look like?

Work

In April, I started as a staff engineer at ActBlue. I’ve been really enjoying working on meaningful projects to help progressive candidates and organizations, and working to figure out how our work changes as AI becomes increasingly capable of accelerating parts of our development processes.

Expertise

Yep, this remains my primary interest (see those questions above for the proof). I’m trying to find the right balance of research, thinking, and writing on the topic, and I’m hoping to make some measurable progress on producing something of value this year.

I’m quite glad for the experience of working on Ten Thousand back in 2024, but I’m still unsure of what I’d want from a revived version of it, so it’s not on the horizon at the moment.

Family

In August, I flew my oldest out to LA to start their freshman year at Otis College of Art and Design, where they’re planning to major in toy design (and I wish that I could join them – the facilities and partnerships at Otis look amazing). My youngest started high school that same week, and is having a great time. Time, it marches on.