WRITING
Tech, crafting, AI, anime, and over-optimizing life. Everything that doesn't fit in a LinkedIn post.
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Peer-reviewed research on survey methodology, measurement bias, financial capability, and applied finance. The Total Survey Error and underrepresentation work maps directly to a modern AI problem: auditing and curating high-fidelity, representative training and feedback data.
Closing the Advice Gap
Technology Interactions in the Financial Capability Wellness Relationship. Published in Journal of Financial Planning, March 2026.
The Intersectional Theory of Planned Behavior
Theory paper in the Journal of Family Theory and Review reworking the Theory of Planned Behavior for culturally diverse families: attitudes, norms, and control as intersectionally constituted, with six testable propositions.
Applied Finance Research
Research publication in Applied Finance Letters.
Family Science Methodology
Co-authored research on family science methodology published in NCFR Report.
Family & Consumer Sciences Research
Research publication in Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Newsletter Posts
What's Your Dream?
The founding post. On wanting to do all of the things without giving any of them up.
Why My Writing Here Reads the Way It Does
On AI slop, the formality problem, and the actual pipeline behind how these posts get made.
The Graduation Post: Director's Cut
Deleted scenes from my CMU MSBA graduation LinkedIn post.
Entering My Writer Era at a Coffee Shop
On buying a MacBook Neo as a dedicated writing machine and what I learned about how I actually work.
Elsewhere I've Written
First Wikipedia Article
Drafting the entry for Florence Hagins at a Boston Black Women Lead edit-a-thon. On who gets remembered, and how.
Intensity and Joy
On Brad Stulberg's line that intensity is sustainable when joy comes with it, and what it looks like when you have one without the other.
When LinkedIn Isn't Just Job Updates
On finding a voice on a platform built for résumés, and the post I made an hour after getting laid off that changed my trajectory.
Is GenAI Making Us Think Less?
A data engineer's take: in my experience it's the opposite. On the "never been a better time to have a problem" frame and what sharpens with use.
Is It Worth It to Go Back to School?
Halfway through CMU's MSBA, on AI-integrated curricula, ROI in a shaky market, and what a Tepper program actually teaches.
With thanks to Shut Up & Write Brighton, the writing community that keeps me showing up to the page.