Making It Easier,
From the Other Side

After years of making complicated things simple for other people, I’m finally on the receiving end—and it’s changed how I think about AI. I pitched an idea about how AI could change the way we work, and now I’m watching that vision come to life.

For almost twenty years, my work has had one through-line: take something ambiguous and turn it into the best possible customer experience.

This past year, my primary focus has been completing my MBA while intentionally evaluating what my next career step could be. I hoped that, in doing so, this season would not be perceived as a gap year or a year in which I couldn’t find work, but rather as a year that prepared me for this moment.

I needed my own point of view.

Now, I am Catholic. I’ve never felt the need to announce my religion publicly, but I have always felt that my calling was design. And now, I believe it is AI. So how do you think I felt when the Pope called for AI to be disarmed? I had no context and no one to turn to for answers about what he meant—except God.

What used to take weeks, even months, to design can now be done in days and fully deployed. Iterating in Terminal. Product, design, and engineering have officially merged. I went to business school thinking I would be merging with product; never did I imagine I would be merging with all three.

How did I come to this conclusion? I moved my portfolio off an all-in-one website builder and onto my own custom site—the very one you’re reading this on right now. I built this in less than a day.

I am aware of the conversations surrounding data centers, their potential impact on the environment, and the backlash against AI. I see how it can be used for harm. But what I am looking to do is bring beauty into this world.

The washing machine, once marketed as magic, was created to help people save time. It, too, posed environmental concerns through its water and energy consumption. Today, it exists in nearly every home, continuously evolving to reduce utility costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

AI is my washing machine.