New website is live and I am so happy about it! Lots of work to get here, but the post once, syndicate everywhere workflow is great, and having it independently operating on my own infrastructure feels good!

Much of my early career was peering into black boxes: using open source statistical software, demystifying ML models, communicating causal inference in plain language. With AI I am building AI-assisted tools that do the same. Openness and trust - these are still core to my work.

My first real use of AI for something productive was asking openweights models Mistral and Code Gemma (v1 I think!) for help with regular expressions. Now I built this website with Claude Opus using the Claude Code harness less than 2 years later.

Working paper verticals like EdWorkingPapers, NBER, and others are a convenient way to end-around the publication process while retaining a lot of the prestige and value of submitting to peer review.