A sampling of projects I’ve worked on across product, brand and industrial design, from AI products at Block to consumer hardware. Each began with a hard problem and a small team willing to sweat the details. Select a project to see the thinking behind it.
Ihaven'tbeenthisexcitedtocreatesinceIfirstdiscoveredAdobePhotoshop.WhilemanyarefocusingonAI'srisks,I'mmoreinterestedinitspotentialtodramaticallylowerthecostofturningideasintoreality.
Risk and Reward is a show about the frontier of design, AI, business and technology. Each episode looks at the bets being made at the edges of these fields: what’s working, what isn’t, and what it means for the people building what comes next.
A selection of my 50+ angel investments. I back early-stage founders building at the intersection of design, technology and AI, and try to be useful beyond the check, on product, brand and the craft of making something people love.
The Ricktionary Podcast: journals on design, technology, philosophy and the state of things. Each entry is written first and then read aloud, so everything below can be read or listened to.
The things I’m into outside of work: the hobbies, obsessions and rabbit holes that have a habit of finding their way back into it.