2025 is coming to a close and so is my short sabbatical from work. I didn’t write as much as I had hoped, but wrote more than I expected to, so I’ll call that a win. This includes a new post that I’m particularly proud of: The Light from a Dying Star is from the Past: You're not taking AI overhangs seriously enough.

It’s more ambitious than anything I’ve written in a while, so please do let me know what you think. If you make it through and think I have interesting things to say and we might work well together, here are characteristics of roles and organizations that excite me:

- Building an abundant future with AI. A positive vision of the future and the role that AI will play in realizing it. I'm not interested in AI as a means to disempower humans, or as an extractive mechanism built on vulnerabilities and vices.
- High agency. You can just do things, etc., etc.
- Role fluidity. I've worn a lot of hats and enjoy doing so. I value places that care more about working on great ideas than making sure everyone stays in their lane. Interdisciplinary, cross-functional, utility player, pick your phrase. I'm convinced that role boundaries are going to get very fuzzy over the next few years, with everyone dabbling a lot more outside of traditional responsibilities.
- Mission-driven. To paraphrase someone (I can't remember who!), there are very few ways to "save the world", but there are myriad ways to improve it for some people and even more ways to not make it worse.
- People and culture. Principled leadership is living your values when it's easier not to. I get excited by my work, want to work with others who are, and who lift others up who are.

As for me, I have:

- Led 50+ person orgs and teams as small as 1, with budgets in the tens of millions at BigCos, medium-sized firms, and startups, even professional sports teams.
- Fiercely dedicated to building, making, and pushing what's feasible both organizationally and technically. A big fan of "yes, if..."
- Directly and indirectly managed pretty much every product / engineering function: data science, software engineering, product management, program management, UX research.
- Have held roles as diverse as senior director of data science / machine learning engineering, "head of" single-threaded leadership, AI leadership, product management.
- Represented industry at the White House, state legislatures, and internationally. Quoted in / contributed to NY Times, CBS News, WSJ, Business Insider, and more. Keynoted and presented at many conferences. Met with too many customers to count.

I'm in Seattle and have no plans to relocate but am very open to remote / hybrid roles.

Thanks as always for reading,

Trey