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I like to make things (mainly software).
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I also like owning my own time, exploring ideas, and working on projects and products with friends.
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I'm currently building Tonic, a software agency that doesn't suck. We work with growing "low tech" businesses to help them get a handle on their systems and do world class customer experience.
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The professional version: I'm a product person with an engineering background, with a strong interest in design, marketing, interpersonal communication, strategy and company building.
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I tend to play the translator role between the “Business" people and the "Tech" people. But my first love is building products.
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I'm from Dublin, Ireland, and have been living abroad since 2015. I spent five years in Manila, where I co-founded First Circle, and I'm currently traveling Europe with my girlfriend Faith.
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Interests
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My main obsession is how we build web software. I believe that within the software engineering industry, the dominant culture and narrative has lost sight of the simplicity that made the web special, and trended toward over-engineering and highly-complex tools, frameworks, and workflows as the default.
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I think a lot about how we can make building software more accessible — both to non-technical people, and junior developers/people who are new to the industry. Something else I think a lot about is how to solve software engineering's "diseconomies of scale" problem.
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For my other interests, see my Atlas profile