Background
I started working around the legal field at 18, helping Macomber Law with its website, IT, public communication, and the assorted technical problems that come with running a small firm. It was a practical education in how rules, institutions, software, and ordinary human confusion run into one another.
I later worked on product and growth for Timely Contract, a legal-technology company. I held a three-percent minority stake and sold it in 2025; I have no current equity.
I now study philosophy at the University of Idaho as preparation for law school. I’m especially interested in constitutional law, civil liberties, criminal justice, political theory, and the incentives that make institutions behave the way they do.
How I tend to work
I like difficult questions, especially when people are talking past each other. I usually start by figuring out where the actual disagreement is, what each side is assuming, and which tradeoffs are being hidden by the language.
The same habit carries into technical work. Figure out what is actually broken, make the system understandable, and fix the smallest thing that solves the real problem.
Outside the obvious stuff
I spend a lot of time on emulation, game modding, automation, and old software. Some of those projects are useful. Some exist because I became annoyed enough to build the missing tool myself.