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July 2026

Most of my days go into voice AI — I work as a founding engineer at smallest.ai, building systems that talk to people. It keeps me close to the question I can't stop circling: what does it do to us when machines start doing the talking and the thinking?

On the side I'm building Clove, a curated reading feed that keeps your reading free from the algorithm. It started as a Telegram digest and is slowly becoming a real product.

I also rebuilt this site — the one you're looking at — and I'm moving my writing out of Notion and into the open. The backlog is embarrassingly larger than the published list, which is the point of publishing it.

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