06 · Writing
Writing
From @ Symbol on the Keyboard to Their Own AI Products: The Discovery Journey of 9th Grade Youth
Teaching AI to 9th graders with no projector and computers that wiped every session, and watching them go from fumbling the @ key to designing their own 3D characters and AI-powered web apps.
Cinepals: What 2 Years Taught Me and the Story of a Product
Two years into Cinepals, this isn't about the product — it's about burnout, scrapping an entire concept, a live call with Apple, and rebuilding myself as a founder and product manager.
Teaching AI tools to a room of kids this summer
A few weeks into a municipal summer program teaching practical AI tools to children: what translates from product design, and what doesn’t.
Building a 12-node render farm, end to end
Notes on designing, wiring, and operating a 12-node render farm for Divizyon: Flamenco on the front, AWS Thinkbox Deadline underneath.
Designing Cinepals: what shipping solo actually teaches you
Notes from designing and building a React Native app by myself: where the design system paid off, and where I cut corners on purpose.
Why I left civil engineering for product design
A year into a civil engineering degree, I realized the part of every project I actually cared about was how people would use the thing, not how it would stand up.