Product lead · Founder · Poet
I build platforms where people learn and earn.
I taught middle school math, founded and sold an ed-tech company, and now lead product on an AI tutor. I write essays to think things through, and poems to keep myself curious.
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Why AI Struggles to Teach
Good teaching often means withholding the answer. AI models are built to give it. Why most AI misses the thing that makes learning stick.
Proof of Learning After AI
A follow-up to The Full Loop: which ways of measuring what a student knows still hold up now that AI broke the link between output and understanding.
The Full Loop: From Learning to Proof of Capability
The technology works. Adoption is near universal. So why can't ed-tech prove anyone is actually learning? A case for owning the full loop of capability.
What I've built
A music theory tool for guitar. Play a chord and Fretlore names it, then suggests where to go next. I built it out of my own struggle to learn the guitar rather than just own one.
Bansho
acquiredThe ed-tech company I founded and ran from 2020 to 2022. It launched as a short-form video app for teacher-creators, reached 80,000 downloads and the top 20 in App Store Education, then pivoted into a 1:1 tutoring marketplace that grew to close to $1M in annual recurring revenue. Acquisition costs outran the margins, and we sold to a larger tutoring company.
The Full Loop
One email a month on building things people learn from, and how we would know if they worked.