I’ve always been a curious kid—the one who took forever to finish a meal because I was too busy asking questions. The one who made my parents dread long car rides, knowing I’d parrot “why?” the entire way (or at least until I fell asleep with a cracker in hand). Curiosity wasn’t a phase; it’s how I move through the world.

These days, that same curiosity shows up in my work as a product strategist, researcher, and designer. I spend my time mapping patterns, making sense of messy systems, and asking better questions about how we live with technology. I’m especially interested in the blurry edges where AI, culture, wellness, and governance meet—how tools meant to “optimize” our lives actually shape our relationships, our attention, our bodies, and our sense of meaning.

What you’ll find here

Piles of Interest is my thinking-in-public space: a mix of essays, collective sticky notes, and half-formed questions that don’t always have tidy answers.

You can expect pieces on things like:

• Who built this, for whom, and at what cost?

• How does religion and traditional mythology intersect with the rise of AI?

• Is the internet really dying?

• What do we do when we are stuck–haunted by the promises of the past and can no longer imagine the future?

Along with reflections from my own practice as a strategist, researcher, and founder: what I’m learning, questioning, or calling out bullshit.

Some pieces will be long-form and researched; others will be looser, more like pulling you into the middle of a conversation I’m already having with myself.

Who I am (and where I’m coming from)

I’ve spent over six years working across product strategy, UX, and research, mostly in spaces where the stakes are high: AI-powered experiences, healthcare, behavior change, and responsible tech. My job has often been to sit between disciplines—engineering, design, business, ethics—and ask: What are we really building here, and for who?

I care about how systems feel from the inside: what it’s like to be a person under algorithmic management, a patient in a digital health funnel, a creator inside a platform’s incentives, a worker whose livelihood depends on tools they didn’t choose.

This newsletter is where that professional lens meets my personal interests: human behavior, gossip, innovation, technology, and quieter questions that rarely make it into product decks but shape everything.

My why

I’m writing Piles of Interest because I don’t think we need more takes that pretend to have everything figured out.

I’m more interested in sitting with the in-between spaces:

• when technology feels both magical and menacing

• when “innovation” collides with real human and environmental limits

• when the headlines are only showing one side of the story

My hope is to build a small corner of the internet where we can be honest about all of this—without doom, without hype, and without needing to turn every thought into a brand.

Why follow along

You might like it here if you:

• Scribble in the margins, keep a chaotic notes app, or collect links you swear you’ll read later.

• Feel both fascinated and uneasy about AI and the future of work, care, and community.

• Crave writing that’s thoughtful but not performative, critical but still grounded in care.

• Want language and frameworks to name the weirdness of living online right now.

What I hope you take from Piles of Interest isn’t a neat thesis so much as a feeling: a small pause in the scroll, a mental nudge, a sentence that sticks with you on a walk. A reminder that your brain is allowed to wander—and that wandering is often where the good stuff lives.