Good ideas survive contact with the real world.

What would it take for young people to run a national program locally - without waiting for headquarters?

Piloted and scaled UNICEF USA High School Clubs to more than 800 chapters and 30,000 youth, then carried the same field-building discipline into humanitarian writing and global collaborations.

How do you turn a cause people agree with into an action they will actually take?

Designed specific, useful ways to participate across DoSomething.org and DoSomething Strategic; the wider organization mobilized six million people in every U.S. area code and 131 countries.

Can a free learning product widen access if the students who need it most do not know it exists?

Made the Khan Academy partnership legible across launch messaging, rural access, mobile engagement, press, and research; one year in, 1.4 million students were using Official SAT Practice.

How do you make risk legible across public money, institutions, and the students they serve?

Assessed $72M in higher-education programs reaching 65% of U.S. enrollment, translating federal grant and renewal evidence into clearer operating risk.

What if a child's first programming language needed no screen?

Raised $1.5M seed to build a Montessori method for STEM, trusted by tens of thousands of homes and schools across 62 countries and available through Amazon, the App Store, Google Play, and partners worldwide.

What do educators need now when the normal publishing cycle is already too late?

Led a team of five educators to ship 100 practical resources for the U.S. K-12 crisis response in the first 90 days of nationwide pandemic school closures. Used by 1,000 districts, state education departments, and Teach For America.

What can a classroom teach an improvement system when the classroom itself has suddenly moved online?

Field reporting with improvement advisors and educators documented how charter schools rebuilt observation, collaboration, and learning cycles during pandemic response and recovery.

How do two cloud platforms become one confident customer experience?

Field notes from a deep Datadog-Microsoft partnership: native Azure distribution, joint engineering, marketplace reach, and enterprise investments shaped by where customers already wanted to build.

What if comp intel could answer the live deal instead of sending another static battlecard?

Intellibot is an internal tool built to help a product marketing team answer competitive requests with deeper, deal-specific battlecards and bottom-up TCO analysis. Later shared as a working demo at a PMM Lunch and Learn in San Francisco.

A software company ships an AI feature. The compute bill lands somewhere in the financial statements. No line item says where.

Read gross margin, free cash flow, and R&D together. The movement can show whether inference is being rented, owned, or has not reached production yet.

Can a children's AI product be useful without competing for the child's attention?

A screen-free research prototype for ages three to seven: it never speaks first, thinks on-device, and shares patterns rather than a child's words.

What should young people learn when the tools - and the jobs - will keep changing?

An argument for agency over prediction, developed through global youth programs, an Autodesk Learn Lab essay, and an ISTE talk for a 100M-member technical community and 20M educators worldwide.

What becomes visible when the construction lines of a life are left in?

Essays about making things, becoming someone, and the small choices that keep an uncertain life editable.

What does AI at work look like when the person doing the work tells the story?

Nailed It! is a video interview series documenting how power users apply AI tools to ordinary work while keeping human judgment and the messy middle visible.

Can the language of machine learning illuminate ordinary life without reducing people to models?

A short-form series that makes ideas like latent space, alignment, and overparameterization available as precise ways of seeing work, choice, and change.