Trying to live a life my daughter will be proud of. Building real things and sharing the lessons along the way.

I’m driven by curiosity. I like getting to the atomic level of an idea, then finding a practical way to test it in the real world. I’m always looking for leverage. Sometimes that turns into a company. Sometimes it’s just a better question.

A lot of my work is connecting dots. I’m not the loudest in the room. I’m usually the one pulling together the builders, operators, and problem-solvers who should be in the same conversation.

I built my first e-bike after a back injury from Iraq made normal biking hard. That project became Propel. Running Propel was a decade-long education in the parts people don’t see: factories, safety, shipping, parts, warranties, service, and the handoffs that break when you scale.

Over time, the bike story turned into a bigger obsession. We’ve gotten used to designing here and building far away. During COVID, when supply chains snapped, it got impossible to ignore how exposed that makes us.

I’ve seen what disruption costs, and I’m motivated by a simple idea: a better future is something you build. If we want real innovation, we have to be able to build for ourselves, learn fast, and iterate close to home.

That’s why I co-founded Bloom. We’re helping build the future closer to home by making it easier for hardware teams to connect the dots between manufacturing, logistics, and service. It’s the messy middle between an idea and a product in the world.

I started making videos through Propel to share what I was learning in real time and to document what was happening around this shift. Later I started a new channel, Future in the Making, focused on our future and how we actually build it. It just started, but I'm excited where it's headed.