The lab
Everything I'm building, and two communities I built before. Each project starts on a subdomain here. The ones that prove themselves earn their own domain.
Projects
Beacon
A finance and operations hub for mission-driven organizations, so every dollar traces to the work it funded.
Labor of loveHeirloom Loft
Hands-on craft and home economics skills for the next generation.
WritingThere Is No Such Thing As Solo Travel
Fifty rules for fifty years, gathered from the road.
PrototypeThe card game
A tabletop game about relationships, pipelines, and the discipline of following up.
OngoingClaude and my ADHD
Notes from building all of this in public.
ArchiveNYTechWomen
The New York community that helped women in tech find friends, or at least an ally.
ArchiveBella Minds
Tech education for women far beyond the coastal cities.
Then and now
In 2011, the problem looked obvious: women were locked out of technology, so the answer was to teach everyone tech. NYTechWomen put people in small rooms together. Bella Minds carried the classes to the places without them.
Fifteen years later almost everyone has a laptop and a remote job, and the divide didn't close. It moved. The scarce skills now are the ones you use with your hands: fixing, building, growing, sewing, cooking, and knowing where your money goes without an app to tell you.
So the swing from "everyone must learn tech" to "everyone needs their hands back" isn't a contradiction. It's the same instinct following the same gap. Teach people the thing that's been taken away from them, in a small room, with someone who lives down the street.
[This wants to be a real essay. Draft it on the blog and link it here.]