FIX THE PROCESS. FIND THE PEOPLE.

My Trading Bot Bet Against Trump Saying "Hottest." Trump Says "Hottest" Every 36 Hours.

I built an autonomous prediction market bot, deposited $350, and immediately lost money on a bet I should've won by a lot. Here's why, and what I learned fixing it.

A single Unicode curly-quote character bypassed my entire signal model and flipped a near-certain YES into a NO bet. I break down the four bugs that cost me money — and what the bot actually does when it's working right.

I Built a Recruiting Tool in a Weekend (And I'm Not an Engineer)

How 14 years of frustration and a conversation with an AI led to Sourcery — a multi-source talent sourcing agent that takes a job description and returns a ranked list of candidates in 15 seconds.

Sourcing was never the valuable part of recruiting. It was the tax you paid to get to the valuable part. Here's how I built a tool that compresses that overhead to near-zero — and what it actually means for the future of the role.

My Dream Talent Automation Stack

Screening 200+ applicants a week isn't scalable — not if you actually want to give each candidate a real experience. Here's the end-to-end automation workflow I'd build if I had full control of the stack.

I break down the full 4-stage workflow — from Tofu + Gem at the top of funnel, to an Ezra async AI screen, to Zapier routing Zoom transcripts into auto-filled scorecards, to a Greenhouse offer approval that fires DocuSign and a personalized video message automatically. The goal: protect the human moments by automating everything around them.