Writing

Notes from the edge of design and technology.

Long-form pieces on the work behind the work: the teams, the tools and the calls that shaped how I design.

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Illustration of a teenager at an Apple II in a school office

Essay · Memoir · October 31, 2026 · 13 min read

The Silicon Door

At fourteen I filed a copy of a key so I could be alone with an Apple II. The notebooks from those nights survive, and they sit closer to early AI research than I ever knew.

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The early Lifecapture Interactive team at 263 Adelaide Street West, Toronto

Essay · October 31, 2026 · 12 min read

Before the Playbook: Inside Lifecapture Interactive

How a crew of filmmakers, game designers, hackers and hustlers built a full-stack creative shop in Toronto before most of the industry knew it needed one, and how LCI became my road into enterprise UX.

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