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.

Over winter I was able to get into a good rhythm balancing my challenging day job with creating for myself.

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.

I recently realized how perfect it is to work on a book about being new when you’re starting fresh in a new (to you) city. We’ve been in Montréal for about a month now and routines are just starting to solidify. I’m seeing a lot of parallels in the feeling of finding your way when everything is simultaneously familiar and yet not quite the same as it used to be. It’s put me in a nice (and, unsurprisingly, new) headspace for returning to this project after a few months away.

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

I’m currently training for a 14km swim in Lago d’Orta, Italy, in June 2025. Am I terrified? Yup. Am I excited? Yup!

To train for it, I’m swimming with the triathlon club at McGill University as well as working with my coach from Gorillas & Butterflies. With challenging workouts and a welcoming group, I’m enjoying myself and the race anxiety is delayed for the time being. I also simply feel more like myself when I have a swimming routine, so race or no race, I’m happy to be in the pool.

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.