I love learning about anything music and music-tech related and have been mostly electronic music and guitar, with perhaps an over-the-top interest in synthesizers, modular (eurorack), sequencers and more.

In the Spring of 2024, I released my first "real" song - after finding a good balance of personal creativity with AI help to enhance my singing voice - which gave me the confidence to actually publish to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and more.

Song: FIltered Faces On Spotify 

 I also post some videos on YouTube.

In 2017 I presented a talk on Machine Learning Insights for Human Learning at TNW Europe. This is a talk I had given before, but, as always, I tweaked it for this audience. My general message in this talk is about the irony embedded in recent progress in Machine Learning... as we improve machines abilities to learn and solve unpredictable problems, we continue to hard-code our kids to follow directions, do well on standardized tests and memorize solutions to known problems. Let's fix this.

I gave this talk entitled "Killing the Save Button" at TNW Europe in Amsterdam in 2016. This talk focused on product management lessons I learned in the creation of products like Google Sheets, Docs and Drive. I lean in to the importance of making product decisions,  listening to customers and sometimes ignoring their aversion to change (as in the killing of the save button in Docs).

In 2013, I spoke to students at SUNY Albany (UAlbany) about the skills of Innovation - starting with encouragement to discover their passion and learning from failure rather than avoiding it.

This talk had special meaning to me, since I was a Computer Science major at UAlbany many years ago.