I'm a software engineer and a Bahá'í, and the second fact shapes the first. Bahá'ís work alongside their neighbours to build resilient communities capable of meeting the challenges of the current age ; I try to write software in the same spirit — tools that respect the intelligence and dignity of the people who use them.
By day I build an intelligence platform for sales teams at Sybill; before that, Lindy and Teamflow. My interest in AI is far older - my master's thesis explored parallel algorithms on GPU architecture - and these days it goes into practical things: language models turned into working tools, and a constellation of small applications I build and run for my family and myself.
Several researchers I heard interviewed about psychedelic medicine mentioned that they use the substances themselves. That set me wondering: can someone remain an unbiased observer of something they have personally embraced? It turns out science has names for this problem - and tools for it. A quick survey, using psychedelic research as the worked example.
11 September 2026
The best way to prove an idea has value is to put a working version in front of real people. With AI assistance the cost of writing the code has fallen sharply — but building an app is more than writing code. Here is how I deploy my personal apps for free, or nearly free, in three tiers of increasing complexity.
10 September 2026
Somewhere along the way, nobility in fiction became embarrassing. Characters who do right because it is right are dismissed as childish, while "morally complex" became our highest term of praise. I think this reflects a mistaken verdict about human nature — and there is good evidence the tide is worth pushing against.
10 September 2026
Command-line Google Drive manager in Rust: ls/mv/cp/rm/cat/vim on Drive paths, a local semantic index with offline search, Claude-answered questions with citations, and plan-then-confirm natural-language tasks.
Static-site football tracker that fetches league data at build time via GitHub Actions and serves fixtures, results, standings, and top scorers with no server or database.
Flood the board from the top-left corner within the move budget. Easy, Medium, Hard, and a shared Daily board; Okabe–Ito palette with glyphs; pure TypeScript game core.
Interactive word puzzle assistant with drag-and-drop interface, real-time filtering, and comprehensive word list for solving word games.
Any hope of contributing to a brighter future for mankind, rest on the fundamental acceptance of the nobility of man.
O SON OF SPIRIT!Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
