I build digital products.I build creative teams.I build gardens.

Now

  1. 2024–Now
    Beatnik Consulting

    My consultancy. AI adoption and transformation for clients like Yahoo, plus design and product strategy. It’s where most of my week goes.

  2. 2026–Now
    FamiliarResearch preview

    A private, personal AI assistant, trustworthy enough to show up for you in every aspect of your life.

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  3. 2025–Now
    NewsieLive

    A news reader built for a cozier internet.

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  4. 2025–Now
    QuothLive

    A micro-application for discovering unusual quotes.

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  5. 2025–Now
    Net GoodBetween seasons

    A podcast with Julian: candid stories about building companies, technologies, and a lifelong friendship.

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  6. Always
    The garden

    Where I do a lot of my learning. It keeps showing up in the writing.

Previously

  1. 2018–21
    PocketListCo-founder, CEO

    An apartment-hunting platform that showed renters homes months before they hit the open market.

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  2. 2021–24
    HeirloomCo-founder, CEO

    An identity management toolkit built on the blockchain. We tried to kill passwords for you; it didn’t work out.

    Case study →
  3. RFK art
    2016–19
    Robot F. KennedyPodcast

    A once-and-future podcast trying to understand current events through history and science fiction first.

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Writing

AI is a gardenJune 2025

Stop trying to make AI into predictable software. Start tending it like the living system it is.

Animal Rights as Rehearsal for the Age of Artificial IntelligenceSeptember 2025

How we treat animals today is a rehearsal for how superhuman intelligence may treat us tomorrow.

All writing

I can’t stop thinking about…

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