Hi, welcome to my website & blog!
I’m currently building Notion in San Francisco. Here you’ll find various musings about navigating work & life and some things I have built. 😊
Posts
Articles
Articles
Software experimentation sins
Nov 17, 2024
A guide on how to do software experimentation less wrong.
Advice for students
Sep 23, 2024
Some practical advice for college students in tech majors.
On debugging
Aug 4, 2024
A mental model for diagnosing and fixing code issues faster.
Graphs of knowledge: computer science
Mar 2, 2023
An exploration of the breadth and depth of a computer science career.
Don’t thrash the user: how UI/UX disruption erodes software trust & love
Nov 28, 2022
An article on UI/UX thrash and how to minimize it.
So long, Meta: 3 years in a badge post
Aug 8, 2022
Reflections on 3 years of building Facebook at Meta.
Projects
Projects
Shadbook: Design system docs
Apr 6, 2025
I built a design storybook & starter kit powered by shadcn!
Building Bomberman with Claude!
Nov 30, 2024
I built a bomberman clone with help from LLMs!
Databases at Notion
Apr 14, 2024
I currently work on building out the databases product at Notion!
wustep.me: now powered by Notion
Nov 21, 2022
In Nov 2022, I redid my website! It’s now powered by Notion and the nextjs-notion-starter-kit repo.
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Profiles on Facebook.com
Aug 1, 2022
Between 2019 and 2022, I helped build out Profiles at Facebook.com.
Highlighty: Phrase Highlighter Extension
Mar 1, 2020
🧰 Highlighty is an open-source phrase highlighter extension.
Chorus: Multi-Device Coordination for Data Visualizations
Apr 30, 2018
During my time as a Research Assistant for the Interactive Data Systems Group, I built a library for multi-device data coordination for data visualizations.
Starry Night Sequencer: A MIDI Visualizer
Dec 31, 2016
🎹 For a Design class, I built a MIDI data visualization on top of a GIF of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night.
TBDBITL: An Infographic for The Best Damn Band In The Land
Dec 31, 2016
🥁 For a class at The Ohio State University, I tackled making an infographic for the marching band with two classmates, using D3.js.
Greenbears: Sports Management Website
Dec 1, 2014
🐻 My first large project was a CMS built in PHP for sports websites, built around 2013-14. The website was used by 60+ athletes and parents in my high school's cross-country and track & field teams.
Personal Essays
Personal Essays
On music improvisation
Jun 29, 2025
A rabbit-hole into the topic of music improvisation.
Headspace
Nov 7, 2024
An exploration of seeing the self as a blob navigating an infinitely dimensional headspace.
Foraging
Jun 25, 2024
On navigating ADHD.
Vulnerability
Feb 1, 2023
On finding and cultivating vulnerability.
On Play
Oct 4, 2020
A short read about the concept of play, inspired by childhood imagination and music.
