I’m doing something harder than restarting a company: forcing myself to take a break. Dreaming up technical diagrams could happen in my sleep, because that’s not the hard part to me. The true hard shit is knowing I have this immense desire that’s been burning since I was 13, and not seceding to it.

I lost my childhood dream that I started at 16 of helping millions of people have better lives through tech. And then I did shrooms.

It’s my belief that to truly build software that impacts people’s lives, it’s not enough to relieve one area of it: it would be better to have a set number of software that addresses common issues, and help people combine them to fit their situation.

I feel the overwhelming sense of fear I gained that day in high school every day. I think of the state of the world, the people I love, and the wounds awaiting them. And the only thing I have for that fear is this. A tiny mobile app for them to reach me if they ever need me.

Building a design system to standardize development at Astra Labs.