May 5, 2025

Valise. The company I cofounded with Ross Zurowski to build the world’s best inventory software for artists is doing well. We continue to ship improvements and new features, onboard new users, and, thankfully, see a higher-than-average percentage of those users convert to paying subscribers. We’re a few months shy of completing our v1.0 feature set and opening it completely to the public.

Editing and writing. This week marks one year working as a writer and editor at Notion, and in the past two months I’ve been deeply involved the planning for Make with Notion, the company’s annual user conference. I’ve also been editing books for the Clark Art Institute, MIT Press, Antithykera, and others, as well as completing shorter-form writing and editing projects for several design studios and architecture firms.

Elsewhere. I recently joined the board of the legendary Toronto nonprofit Art Metropole and served as a juror and portfolio reviewer for the Penumbra Foundation and the CONTACT Photography Festival. At home, with my nine-year-old, I’m avidly watching the NHL (🍁) and NBA (🍀) playoffs; my six-year-old is encouraging the family to go on even more bike rides than we normally do. I recently finished reading Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection, which I enjoyed immensely (despite sometimes feeling implicated by its narrator’s barbed observations). I’m listening to lots of new music and logging my favorite 2025 albums in this Are.na channel. The next recipe I’m going to try is this vegan lemon cake.