Uses

The gear and tools I actually use, day in and day out.

Running

3,000+ miles a year go through these.

New Balance 1080

My daily road shoe, the one that eats most of those morning miles. Comfortable enough to forget about, which is exactly what you want from a daily trainer.

Hoka Speedgoat

For trail running and racing. Grip and cushion for everything from Sedona red rock to Ohio towpath. This is what's carrying me through the Burning River 50.

Garmin watch

Every mile and every night of sleep on this site flows from it, automatically. The quantified-self backbone of the whole operation.

AI

The tools I use myself, and teach students and local businesses to use.

Claude

Amazing across the board and my daily driver: Chat, Cowork, Code, and the most underrated feature going: Dispatch. This site was built and is maintained with it.

Gemini

My backup when Claude usage limits hit. Its Daily Brief feature earns a spot on its own, and I try to review it every day.

NotebookLM

A great creative tool for digesting content. When I don't have time to read a long-form piece, it turns it into a podcast I can take on a run.