Shorewood, 1950
Everyone the 1950 census takers wrote down in Shorewood, Wisconsin: 16,095 people in 5,289 households, searchable by address, name, or job.
I build software and write about what I learn.
I've spent more than 20 years building software and roughly a decade working in ML and AI. I write longer pieces here, and share what I'm trying, reading, and listening to in a regular digest. You can also find my day-to-day thinking on X.
Writing
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November 11
Handwritten census records, defining correctness, project memory, Zach Lloyd on software factories, and Kevin Roose's research workflow.
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- How I Use Modal
- Building the Multiplayer Institutional Brain
- There's More Public Data Than People Exploring It
- Automating the Path from Frontier Models to Fine-Tuned Models
Notes
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Making handwritten census records explorable
I spent a few hours with Fable 5.2 building an interactive explorer for Shorewood's handwritten 1950 census records.
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Using past sessions to improve project memory
I use a wiki for my projects and mine past sessions to distill learnings in a batch step.
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Make your decisions useful to the next agent
When you apply your judgment, feed that decision back into the system so you don't have to make it again.
Projects
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What Shorewood Said
1,459 written comments from Shorewood's 2026 Community Survey, organized by theme, with the numbers behind the charts.
The Listening Index
1,613 takeaways from 196 podcast episodes, searchable by topic, show, and speaker.
Pacing the Frontier
All 1,134 signatories and 70 comments on the Pacing the Frontier statement, explorable, with every figure computed from the source data.
I do client work through PragmaNexus, mostly applied AI for investment research. More on that.