👋 Hi, I'm Tyler, a Product Manager in Denver.

I'm building an AI assistant that runs my life in the background and only interrupts me for decisions. See it in action →

About

I’ve spent 14 years in technology across Google, Tripadvisor, Brightwheel, and Meta, most recently as a Staff Product Manager at Instagram. For five years, I helped shape Instagram’s evolution into a place where people connect through what they share. I set direction and led growth across group chats, sharing, and new connections, helping turn the things people watch into conversations and the people they follow into friends.

I love learning a new space (the data, the users, the market), forming a point of view about what should exist, and turning that conviction into something people can use.

Now I’m building a proactive AI personal assistant, with a dashboard where I delegate work, follow progress, and make decisions. Behind it, agents read my inbox, draft replies, research jobs, watch for concert presales, and manage our home renovation paperwork. I’m pushing the limits of what it can take on and refining how we work together. This site documents what I build and learn along the way.

Outside of work: 🍽️ cooking, 📚 reading, ⚽ soccer, 🤖 ai, 🥾 hiking, 🎸 live music, 👨‍👧 dad things.

Now · October 2026

Building a proactive personal assistant and sharing the product decisions behind it. Next up: publishing the Job Radar's code, scoring rubric and evals.

I'm also talking with a few teams about PM roles and short product-strategy engagements, particularly where AI is changing what the product can do. If that's your team, I'd love to compare notes.

Writing

• Oct 2026The assistant I wanted doesn't have a chat boxA month with an assistant that works while I sleep, and why the chat box is the wrong shape.

Projects

• liveAssistant DashboardOne page for every open project in my life, with a strict attention hierarchy and a reply box that starts an agent run.
• liveJob RadarDaily fetch of PM postings from 23 companies, scored against a written rubric of what I'm looking for next.
• liveConcert RadarPresale alerts for the artists I'd actually buy tickets for, early enough to beat the resale market.
• livePurchase AdvisorPressure-tests whether to buy at all, then finds the best real value. Never buys.
• buildingWhat's for DinnerEasy weeknight dinners, planned around what's already in the fridge and designed to meet our health goals.

Other stuff

• Reading list: everything I've read, by year, with the five-star books marked