Building my own coach
A Strava + Garmin + local LLM personal fitness tracker I built over a month for the data I actually wanted to see about my training.
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Twenty years in product, design and the data layer underneath. I’ve built platforms used by 20 million people and a single standard for the world’s wine data. The through-line was never wine. It was data, and what you can build once it’s trustworthy.
These days that means product and AI for growth-stage technology companies: turning the data they already have into things that ship.
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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