I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress.

I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviser to Our World in Data.

Formerly, I was a software engineering manager and tech startup founder. I was co-founder & CEO of Fieldbook, a hybrid spreadsheet-database (read my postmortem).

I’ve also been an engineering manager at Flexport, Amazon and Groupon, and was at a few other startups as co-founder or early employee. Long ago I helped build a biotech supercomputer for D. E. Shaw Research.

Full resume on LinkedIn.

The Roots of Progress

The Roots of Progress is where I write about the history of technology & industry, and more generally the story of human progress. This and related projects are my current full-time focus.

Other writing

Separately, I write here sporadically about startups, tech, business, and life. My writing has been featured on All Things D and Software Lead Weekly.

Some of my top posts:

• What happened at Fieldbook
• Minimum Viable Culture
• Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization
• How to be a culture mismatch at Amazon
• What allows Amazon to be so innovative?
• How to work with “stupid” people
• The real first-mover advantage
• Steve Jobs

For more, browse the archive.

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