Why Now

I’m getting back into writing and building after years of mostly staying quiet. There are two honest answers.

The first is that I got laid off from Google at the beginning of this year. After the initial shock wore off, something unexpected happened: I got time to think. Real, unstructured time — the kind you don’t get when you’re heads-down in a big company. I started revisiting old ideas, picking up side projects, and asking myself what I actually want to build. Getting laid off is disorienting, but it’s also clarifying. When the default path disappears, you have to decide what matters to you.

The second reason is AI. We’re in the middle of something genuinely new. LLMs are changing how people interact with information, and I want to be building in this space, not just watching from the sidelines. I have ideas — some half-baked, some I think could actually help people — and this blog is where I’ll work through them.

Being a new father adds urgency to all of this. Before my kid, I could afford to wait. “I’ll build that someday.” “I’ll write about it eventually.” Now I feel the days compressing. Not in a stressful way — in a clarifying way. If I have an idea, I should try it. If I learned something, I should write it down.

So: why now? Because I have more time than I’ve had in years, more motivation than ever, and a window that won’t stay open forever.