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Notes & writing

Short field notes on data engineering, public health, AI, and operating institutions in complex environments.

  1. June 1, 2024 · 7 min · Public health
    Using satellite imagery to improve immunization coverage in DRC
    Only one in three children in the DRC is fully immunized. Here's how semi-automated micro-planning documents — built from satellite-derived population data — helped change that.
  2. July 4, 2025 · 6 min · AI · Agents
    What I learned building Pmail, an agentic email client
    Notes from putting Claude in charge of an inbox — what tools to give it, what tools to absolutely not give it, and why the boring product surface matters more than the model.
  3. April 22, 2025 · 5 min · Data engineering
    Why dbt belongs in government IT
    Procurement loves stored procedures and Excel exports. Here's the case for putting a modern transformation layer in a public-sector data stack.