A note on this text below: I used an LLM to extract this blurb from a list of cover letters I wrote in recent years. I think it’s important to disclose this, even if I felt like the output below was representative of me and my own writing enough to be part of this site.

If I had to pick one word that has driven most of what I’ve done in life, it would be curiosity. It’s been the engine behind almost everything — why I gravitated toward technology, why I play tabletop RPGs, why I picked up the violin, why I still lose hours to miniature painting, and why I find it genuinely hard to leave a tricky puzzle alone once it’s lodged itself in my brain.

Play has always been close to the center of how I see the world. Not just games — though I love those too, from board games to the kind of sprawling collaborative storytelling you get around a table with friends — but play as a mindset. The willingness to experiment, to break things apart to see how they work, to treat the unknown as an invitation rather than an obstacle.

I’ve always thought I’d have made a decent teacher. Something about bridging the gap between what’s complex and what’s clear has never felt like work to me. I spend a fair amount of time helping people around me — friends, family — navigate the parts of the internet that are needlessly confusing or quietly hostile, and I find it genuinely satisfying. Privacy matters to me, a lot. Not as an abstract principle, but as something worth actively caring about and passing along.

I have a long-running love of writing, in pretty much any shape it takes. I’m drawn to good journalism, to well-made television, to anything that takes ideas seriously and communicates them with care. I’m skeptical of certainties and comfortable sitting with open questions. I think changing your mind is underrated.