Public policy and economics for families and productivity

What I focus on

Families experience the economy as a connected system. The cost and availability of housing, care, transport, education, and time all shape where people can live, how much they can work, and the choices available to them. Policy often treats these issues separately even when their effects compound in the same household.

I am particularly drawn to reforms that reduce avoidable costs and coordination burdens for families while making better use of people, infrastructure, and public spending. That includes the design of work and leave, care and school calendars, transport and housing, and the incentives that shape household decisions.

How I approach policy

I look for the incentives, constraints, and second-order effects beneath a problem. Good policy should work in ordinary life, not only on paper: it should account for how people respond, how it will be delivered, what it costs, and which trade-offs it creates. I am most interested in ideas that are concrete enough to test, measure, and improve.

My perspective is shaped by being a parent and by a career in software engineering and product leadership. I have spent much of that career turning ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, working across engineering, design, data, research, finance, legal, support, and commercial teams. The same systems thinking is useful when examining public problems.

Professional background

My professional work spans travel, marketplaces, media, search, acquisition, experimentation, CRM, APIs, and platform tooling. I have led product work from research and opportunity sizing through strategy, delivery, and evaluation.

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Writing

Policy for Public Good collects essays on practical reforms for families, communities, and productivity.