Building my own coach
A local-LLM fitness tracker I built on Garmin data for the numbers I actually wanted: route rankings across years, cardiac drift and a coach I can talk to.
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Twenty years in product, design and the data layer. I built platforms for 20 million people and a single standard for wine data. The through-line was never wine. It was data, and the scale you achieve once it is trustworthy.
Today, I drive product and AI for growth-stage technology companies: turning existing data into shipped products.
Design and data in equal measure. Usually on a bike once the work ships.
Latest writing
The wine column that became a career
WineCollective started in 2009 from a wine column on R4NT and a reader question. It grew into BlackSquare and then Wine Folly. The full arc.
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The site that taught me everything
R4NT was a Calgary online magazine I started in my early twenties and ran for nine and a half years. It pushed me harder than I knew I could be pushed, and everything I do now is downstream of it. This month I brought it back online.
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Four years on the trail
Reflections from four years on the board of the Mountain Bikers of the Central Okanagan, the last three as President. What we built, what I learned and the work I am proud to pass on.
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