Two or three sentences. Who you are, in your own voice, the way you would say it to someone across a table.
Then one paragraph with some room in it. This is where the range goes — that you build very large things in New York and also write about the living world, and that these are not two unrelated hobbies. Nobody else who reads this page will have that particular pair.
Now
August 2026
- Finishing The Sentinel Thread, a book about the living world and what we owe it.
- Your role on the Queens Borough-Based Jail Facility — a design-build project for NYC DDC.
- Building software for the construction industry: schedule analysis, document control, field quality.
- One personal line — what you are cooking, reading, growing, or walking.
The work
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Construction
Building public work in New York
Two or three sentences. What you actually do on a project of this size — the risk, the schedule, the claims, the arguing about what a contract means. Say it plainly; the scale speaks for itself.
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Writing
The Sentinel Thread: The Web of Life
A book tracing life's unfolding from the first stars to this morning — and asking what the thread that sees owes to the web that made it.
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Software
Tools for the people who build
Two or three sentences on what you build and why — schedule analysis, document control, field quality. The reason is that you needed them and they did not exist.
A sentence of your own that you would be glad to be quoted on. From the book
The unexpected thing
The charcoal chicken. The recipes. The garden. Whatever it is — this is the part people remember, and it is the part everybody cuts. Do not cut it.