👋! I've been making software products and leading teams for decades now. I love building things that solve problems. Engineering.
I've worked at every size of company you can imagine: bootstrapped startups where I was the entire engineering team, mid-stage companies figuring out how to scale without losing their minds, and global public companies where a single decision winds through seventeen meetings before anyone writes a line of code. Each one taught me something the others couldn't.
Here's the thing I keep coming back to (that you already know): the hard part of building software is never the software. It's the space between people. The misread priority. The update that never made it to the person who needed it most. The meeting that could have been a sentence. (Or the sentence that should have been extended into a deep meeting.) I spent years watching talented teams slow themselves down with their own coordination overhead, and I started to think there had to be a better way to run the work.
So I built one. I founded Steady with people I trust: remote-work veterans from Sapient, Basecamp, and GitLab who'd seen the same problems from different angles. Steady is an AI-powered teamwork OS. It keeps plans connected to progress and teammates connected to each other, without the usual tangle of meetings, dashboards, and chat threads (and now AI slop). That's the pitch. But really it's the product of two decades of watching what actually works and what just looks like work.
Along the way, I partnered with other tech leaders to write Continuous Coordination, an open-source set of principles for structured async coordination. It's the thinking underneath the product. If you're trying to make a distributed team run well, start there.
I also write The Steady Beat, a weekly newsletter for people running teams. If you're managing sprints, driving a roadmap, or just trying to make sure the right work gets done, it's for you.
If any of this resonates, I'd love to hear from you. Like all of us, I'm still figuring things out.