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Product designer and design lead. I build products from zero, the systems that hold them together, and the teams that ship them. Fifteen years, twenty-six teams, one tally at a time.

Maker · chapter 04

Twelve mixtapes, mixed and sleeved by hand.

Design pays the bills. This is the rest of the count — a camera that goes where the work does not, and a habit of building things that never ship to anyone. It keeps the day job honest.

Start at zero.

Every project here began at nothing. If yours is at zero too, that is exactly the right place to start.

Two ways in

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