01 · Personal Finance / Web Product
Compound Genius
A free investing and compound-interest tool designed to make the long-term power of compounding easier to visualize.
Visit Compound GeniusAbout Me
There’s more to me than employer brand.
I’ve spent much of my career thinking about people, organizations and what makes ideas resonate.
Outside of work, that curiosity tends to take me in a lot of different directions.
I mentor students. I teach financial literacy. I build websites because I enjoy figuring out how ideas become products. I read constantly. I travel whenever I can.
Most of it comes back to the same thing:
I like learning how things work—and then finding ways to make them useful to someone else.
Based in New York City.
Giving Back
Someone opening a door can change the trajectory of your life.
I believe access matters.
Access to information.
Access to opportunity.
Access to people.
That belief is a big reason I volunteer with Minds Matter NYC, mentoring students as they prepare for college and the opportunities that come after it.
Mentorship matters to me because sometimes what a young person needs most isn’t another lecture—it’s someone willing to listen, answer the questions nobody else is answering and help make the path ahead feel a little more navigable.
I’ve benefited from people who shared what they knew with me. I try to do the same.
Minds Matter NYCFinancial Literacy
Knowing how money works shouldn’t be a privilege.
Financial literacy has become one of the subjects I care most about.
Investing. Compound interest. Credit. Retirement. Taxes. Building wealth.
These concepts shape enormous parts of our lives, yet many people reach adulthood without anyone ever really teaching them how they work.
Whenever I have the opportunity, I teach financial literacy in schools, community centers and other community settings.
I’m less interested in telling people what to do with their money than helping them understand the mechanics well enough to make informed decisions for themselves.
To me, financial literacy is ultimately about optionality. The earlier someone understands money, the more choices they can potentially create for themselves later.
Financial knowledge compounds too.
Side Projects
Sometimes I build things simply because I want them to exist.
I love building websites.
Not because I’m trying to become a full-time developer, but because I enjoy the process of taking an idea from:
“What if this existed?”
to
“Here it is.”
It forces me to think about product, design, copy, user behavior, technology and the hundreds of small decisions required to turn an idea into something another person can actually use.
02 · Travel / Digital Experience
Next Stop Us
A playful digital experience for revealing surprise trips through clues, anticipation and storytelling.
Visit Next Stop UsThese projects give me a playground for experimenting with ideas outside of my day job—and usually teach me something I end up applying somewhere else.
What I’m Reading
My bookshelf is usually a pretty good snapshot of what I’m thinking about.
I read across business, psychology, technology, money, history, biographies and whatever else happens to pull me down a rabbit hole.
Some books change how I work. Others change how I think. And some are simply great stories.
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
Kobe Bryant
A Beginner’s Guide to Dying
Simon Boas
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
A Few Things I Believe
A few things I believe
- 01
Curiosity is one of the most underrated advantages you can have.
- 02
If I don’t understand something, my instinct is usually to learn it—not avoid it.
- 03
The best way to really understand an idea is to try building something with it.
- 04
Knowledge becomes more valuable when you share it.
- 05
A good life should leave room for things that have absolutely nothing to do with your career.
And when I’m not doing any of that...
You’ll probably find me traveling somewhere new, taking too many photos, searching for my next book, experimenting with an idea I probably don’t need to turn into a website—or enjoying New York without opening my laptop.
New York City is home. The world is a very close second.
Work is a big part of who I am.
Just not all of it.
If something here sparked a conversation—about employer brand, financial literacy, technology, books, travel or something completely unrelated—I’m always happy to connect.