Building rad shit people love. Product lessons and experiments from 18+ years of shipping products at Google—and the side quests I build to learn.
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Zen and the Art of AI Maintenance
One of my favorite books is Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Early on, he spins the question that haunts most of the product work I do:
Quality—you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is. But that’s self...
Bring Your Own Agent
In June, I wrote about building the travel app I'd always wanted. I turned our family's messy travel doc into a pretty rad app (called Tripfold) that I came to depend on all summer. It kept all of our logistics, plans, booking barcodes and...
Check Your Work
A few weeks ago, I shared the math worksheet generator with the math teachers at my daughter’s school. One of them asked a great question:
“I use AI regularly to help develop math problems, investigations, and instructional materials, bu...
Improved! Math Worksheet Generator
Improved! Math Worksheet Generator. One request produces three pages: the worksheet, a study guide, and the answer key.
I spent eight years handwriting math worksheets for my kids before I built a tool to do it for me. That tool was good....
What a darkroom hobby teaches you about shipping AI products
A selection of prints from my final project in Darkroom III at Foothill College. All made with the benefit of the GlassMeter app.
This is the third and final post about GlassMeter, the film light meter I built to actually understand how me...
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I'm a Product Director at Google Labs, leading NotebookLM, and a lifelong builder. Founder of numerous products at Google. Currently shipping AI products; nights and weekends I build with my kids, develop film, and make things just to understand how
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