Now
(ish)
Last updated Mar 15, 2025
Welcome to my Now page. It's what I'm currently up to.
Life/General
My last update was in November. Feels like things have moved so fast and slow all at the same time and now it's March. The biggest thing I've been doing is preparing for a baby in March 👶🏽. I've been reading a ton of books and building out the nursery, doing classes and debating names with my wife. It's been super fun and I'm stoked about this next chapter of life. In 8 weeks, we'll welcome a baby girl into the world 👨🏽🍼
Skills / Knowledge
Web development
Still working through a few JS and CSS courses for a refresher on some more advanced concepts. I've started to lay the groundwork for moving this site off Framer in an effort to build it "by hand" like the good ole days.
iOS
Worked my way through a ton of tutorials for a refresher on some Swift + Swift Data. I have some basic functionality for a few apps I'm building. I just haven't many uninterrupted stretches of time to work on it until this month. That should start to change starting in April.
Work
After what seemed like an eternity, my promotion finally went through for Lead Product Designer. Shortly after, Atlassian laid off 1,600 people (Mar 2026). The Trello design team was hit pretty hard. Any opportunities for mentorship I was excited about are now non-existent. That was a huge source of happiness in my role, so I'm in the process of figuring out what the future looks like.
Reading
Currently
This book takes a look at the way Danish children are raised and offers a profound parenting theory that claims to be the at the crux of their continued happiness.
Listening
Historically I've usually thrown on my Discover Weekly but I'm moving off of Spotify—as are many others.
I don't typically concentrate well with 'normal' music and often just throw on a playlist from musicforprogramming(); which also has a design aesthetic which cannot be argued with or critiqued in any way.