First the music.
Then the classroom.
Now the code.
It started behind the door of a speakeasy. The No Name Bar in Boulder, fifty seats, and the music was mine to book. I ran it six nights a week and grew the door from $200 nights to $3,000 nights, one artist at a time. Gregory Alan Isakov played secret shows there to work out new material. Nathaniel Rateliff sent me a demo, I booked him for $50 and free food, and he sells out Madison Square Garden now.
A few years later I was teaching. Kampala, Uganda, six subjects across K-12 at a small international school, and when there was no social studies curriculum I wrote one. Every student passed the IGCSE writing exam.
Back in Eugene, I’ve taught English for seven years, sixth and eighth grade now. I led the district’s rewrite of its ELA standards, cutting them to the ones that mattered and putting them in language a kid could actually use.
Now I build custom AI tools. Different materials, same work.
The writing is where I try to work that out.
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