[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":104},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-\u002Fnow":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":96,"extension":97,"meta":98,"navigation":99,"path":100,"seo":101,"stem":102,"__hash__":103},"pages\u002Fnow.md","Now",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":87},"minimark",[9,16,21,24,28,37,41,57,61,64,68,75,78],[10,11,12],"p",{},[13,14,15],"em",{},"Updated August 2026 · Upper West Side, New York.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"settling-in","Settling in",[10,22,23],{},"We moved to the Upper West Side this summer, and most of life right now is\nthe good work of making a new place home — new routines, new bodega, new\nrunning order for the weekend. It was a summer of getting out of the city\ntoo: the Berkshires, the Poconos, and the Rhode Island coast.",[17,25,27],{"id":26},"sticking-my-head-up","Sticking my head up",[10,29,30,31,36],{},"After a few heads-down years, I'm deliberately looking around: getting\ngenuinely current on AI and agentic tools — not headlines, hands on keys —\nand thinking honestly about what the next chapter of work should look\nlike. The day job is leading product engineering at The Tie; the\n",[32,33,35],"a",{"href":34},"\u002Fwork","workshop"," is a small fleet of consumer apps I build to keep my\nhands in the clay.",[17,38,40],{"id":39},"reading","Reading",[10,42,43,51,52,56],{},[32,44,48],{"href":45,"rel":46},"https:\u002F\u002Fpress.stripe.com\u002Fscaling-people",[47],"nofollow",[13,49,50],{},"Scaling People"," by Claire\nHughes Johnson — tactics for management and company building from Stripe's\nformer COO. Reading it the way you read a book that describes your actual\njob. The running log lives on ",[32,53,55],{"href":54},"\u002Freading","the nightstand",".",[17,58,60],{"id":59},"playing-watching","Playing & watching",[10,62,63],{},"EA FC and Spider-Man 2, mostly with friends — gaming has always been a\nsocial thing for me. And now that Manhattan is right outside the door,\nI've been going to the movies a lot more. The habit is the point; the\nshowtimes are negotiable.",[17,65,67],{"id":66},"in-the-kitchen","In the kitchen",[10,69,70,71,56],{},"Nothing ambitious lately — just the old reliables on rotation. Next up:\ntres leches. The keepers land in the ",[32,72,74],{"href":73},"\u002Frecipes","recipe box",[76,77],"hr",{},[10,79,80,81,86],{},"This is a ",[32,82,85],{"href":83,"rel":84},"https:\u002F\u002Fnownownow.com\u002Fabout",[47],"now page",". If you have one, I'd\nprobably enjoy it.",{"title":88,"searchDepth":89,"depth":89,"links":90},"",2,[91,92,93,94,95],{"id":19,"depth":89,"text":20},{"id":26,"depth":89,"text":27},{"id":39,"depth":89,"text":40},{"id":59,"depth":89,"text":60},{"id":66,"depth":89,"text":67},"What I'm focused on at the moment.","md",{},true,"\u002Fnow",{"title":5,"description":96},"now","RVJsYEdA8_xer1MosH_zdZWpa5YN5FFAmBcYvD4CvYw",1788130349862]