What I'm doing now

This is a Now page and was last updated Feb 10, 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

For the last few months, I had a full-time role at Bento. Unfortunately, the company went through a round of layoffs in January, and I was one of the affected staff – along with a lot of great other folks. I’m currently looking for new roles, especially with companies that are doing direct good in the world.

Expertise

Yep, this is still 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, and I’ve been thinking of bringing it back this year (though in a slightly different form).

Family

My oldest is in the second semester of their senior year, and we know where they’re going to college in the fall. My youngest is in the process of figuring out which high school she’ll attend. Time, it marches on.

Also, we got a hamster.