Now

Where I am

I live in Montréal and work remotely with a team spread across two continents.

Daily focus

I’m currently working in education technology on an exciting R&D project that is pushing my conceptual skills to the limit. I’m learning daily and enjoying the experience of working across the entire design cycle.

Alongside my day job, I’m enjoying exploring creating for myself, revisiting some favourite mediums and old hobbies.

Hobbies and side projects

Walnut

Introducing Walnut, a calendar for visualization not optimization.

Walnut's lightweight drawing tools and calendar canvas help you get a sense of the shape of plans, for yourself or with others. When you want to sketch out a timeline but not create calendar events, Walnut is for you.

Walnut is based on a practice I’ve had for planning trips home over the last years, trying to visualize time spent with many people. I built this with (a lot of) support from my partner, Quinn. We’re still fine-tuning many details. If you play with it, please feel free to send us feedback!

My book

The gist: I’m working on a book based on an onboarding resource that I created back in 2018. You can read more about the project here.

Writing at this length is new to me and so I’m working more slowly than I expected. To be honest, more often than I’d like to admit I find myself doing “productive procrastination” by changing the scope and format of the project. That said, it’s helpful to hear people are interested in this resource. If that’s you, let me know, I’m happy to share what I can with others.

This website

I think this project will be listed on this page for a long time. The main motivation behind each effort I put into it changes by the week as I—and others—need different things from this space. And so, the efforts will be neverending, at least not for the foreseeable future.

I plan to share more of the journey one day, when it feels more complete (but never will be, I expect, not truly).

Sport

Early this summer I finished a 14km swim in Lago d’Orta, Italy. It was months in the making and I’m happy to report all went well! So well in fact that I’m itching to do more events like it.

I need to call out my coach, Matthias, from Gorillas & Butterflies. He was an amazing support, training me for the event and talking me through my anxiety. If you find yourself in Berlin and want to try triathlon, I highly recommend this club.

Art

Since I started the practice of creating everyday, I’ve dabbled in a few mediums over the last months.

The ones I spend the most time with lately include sketching portraits, sashiko embroidery, doodling with embroidery, and drawing, just generally.