I spent my last career, thirty-five years designing and building software — from bulletin board systems in the early days to consumer-facing web platforms — the kind of work where pattern recognition and judgment matter more than any single technology. I retired in 2022.

Currently I am developing a human-AI collaborative system called Sage, originally named Crain, that treats AI not as an autonomous agent or a passive tool, but as a thinking partner. It’s a working system my wife and I use daily — one that remembers, reasons, pushes back, and respects that the final call belongs to the human. It’s built on a simple conviction: AI and humans are better together than either is alone. I will create a separate post about my AI journey that led to this current collaboration.

My interests are purposefully diverse. I play tennis in good weather seasons, I am playing with the piano from different perspectives. I love reading almost anything but particularly enjoy non-fiction history, historical fiction, science fiction, some western, some action, some fantasy and Jane Austen. I love doing crossword puzzles from about 1000 to 2000 pieces. I am particularly interested in quantum physics, quantum computing, AI, computer knowledge and application. I love movies somewhat along the same genres as my reading, but have a fondness for older movies, especially those from the fifties or sixties. I play ping-pong when I can. I wish I could find enough interest to play doubles foos-ball. I have both tables in my basement. Finally, I am trying to get back to writing and exercising. At one point I exercised at least 4 days a week. I am trying to get back to at least three days. I tried initially to write after retiring and joined a writer’s group for about a year. I faced writer’s block when writing anything larger than a page or two so I stopped at that time but the desire is stil there.