Metacrisis Activism
I spent several years as a software engineer at large tech companies, working on large-scale systems that millions of people use. I realized that the deepest engineering challenges aren't just about scaling or reliability — they're about what we build towards, not just how efficiently we build it. The metacrisis and our collective capacity to navigate it have become my primary area of ongoing study and ambition.
The Polycrisis
We are living in the era of the polycrisis — the framework that connects humanity's biggest challenges into an interconnected web. Climate change, war, political dysfunction, mental health degradation, attention and agency erosion, and AI catastrophe are not separate problems. They are symptoms of deeper structural dynamics: incentive structures that reward extraction over stewardship, invisibility that shields us from the consequences of our choices, and multi-polar traps that punish unilateral restraint.
My work focuses on three vectors: building tools for digital agency and sovereignty, fostering community through in-person organizing, and writing to articulate the structural dynamics that underlie our collective failure to act.
Community Work
San Francisco (Remote)
Built AI-assisted Slack bots to help climate-conscious professionals find meaningful connections. The world's largest climate community.
San Francisco
Hosted a workshop on incentives, multipolar traps, and systems change. Regularly organize hikes and social events for a passionate community of 300+ members.
San Francisco
Gave a speech about the necessity for community tools like pol.is and dry-ran it for a small group of 30 people to generate consensus about the movement's directions.
Writing
Essays on privacy, surveillance capitalism, AI ethics, and the metacrisis. No comments, no likes — just the writing. The full archive lives on the blog.
Googlers Can Save The World
An open letter published during my last week at Google. Outlines how Google profiteers from the polycrisis, why its current organization cannot lead to meaningful change, and how Googlers have a responsibility to reorient the company.
We must radically change the organization, objectives, and operating procedures of Google and reorient Google products in an entirely different direction, if we are to help humanity overcome the multiple, interrelated, existential threats of climate change, war, political dysfunction, mental health degradation, widespread attention and agency erosion, and AI catastrophe.
My Introduction To Systems Change
Transcript of a presentation to the SF Climate Action Club on May 14th, 2025. Covers Jevons' Paradox, the history of the climate movement, incentives, externalities, multi-polar traps, and the search for a third attractor.
I want to touch upon a few different concepts that begin to explain the ways that we seem to be failing on the climate crisis. I don't claim that these are the entire answer, but these are ways of thinking that may guide us in the right direction.
Key Influences
What I'm Working Toward
I am trying to pivot toward work on meaningful social change and the liberation of cyberspace: digital agency and sovereignty, FOSS solutions, and collective sensemaking tools. The question that drives me is not "how do we build this faster?" but "what should we be building, and who does it serve?"
When not thinking about these questions, I can be found running, cycling, hiking, or riding my motorcycle.