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career experience and skills-- interactive resume

philosophy and insights-- samples of my work

ideas that keep me up, distilled by Dez-- my musings

longer form musings-- Agency + Algorithm

why I like to write and what I'm doing /now

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I'm Pete.

Personally, I'm a lifelong Massachusetts resident. I've traded basketball and skateboarding* for the golf course and fatherhood. more...

My wife and kids are my life; we love swinging in our backyard and enjoying beach days in Maine.

As needed, or when I get some free time, I maintain the family cars and our lawn equipment myself (skills I picked up from my father) and dabble with a modest home-lab* for automation and local AI experiments. I enjoy the hands-on process of tinkering for my own exploration and learning.

Intellectually, I majored in Mathematics and Philosophy* before earning my M.Ed. in Curriculum Design and Instruction. more...

This background fuels my constant hunger for learning; during my studies, I became obsessed not just with what I was learning, but with the mechanics of how I was learning it.

Today, that drive manifests through reading, philosophizing, and a relentless search for deep insights on a wide range of topics. I have a passion for breaking down complex systems and transferring knowledge, as I've found that teaching others is the most effective way to master a concept myself.

Professionally, my career began in the classroom before pivoting to tech, where I returned to my roots as an educator focused on andragogy and training technical experts worldwide. more...

From Singapore and Sydney to Budapest and Bengaluru, I’ve trained teams internationally on proprietary software—an experience that turned knowledge transfer into a primary asset. I truly enjoy exploring topics with other experts and fine tuning my ability to appropriately articulate complex ideas to different audiences.

Today, I produce learning curricula and strategies delivered through various self-service paths to drive pragmatic software adoption. Rapidly mastering complex systems and articulating them clearly is something I truly enjoy; I currently serve as the Manager of Customer Education & Certification at AtScale.

Currently Manager, Customer Education & Certification AtScale
Education M.Ed. Curriculum Design & Instruction B.A. Mathematics · B.A. Philosophy
Global Reach Technical training on 4 continents Singapore · Sydney · Budapest · Bengaluru
Craft Knowledge transfer & curriculum design Pragmatic AI & software adoption

From Spark to Essay

This site doubles as my idea notebook — a small, deliberate practice in thinking out loud, squeezed into the margins of a full-time job and three young kids. The same instructional-design instincts I use professionally, applied to my own ideas:

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Capture. Ideas arrive on walks, during late nights, mid-commute. I voice-dictate them raw — typos, tangents, and all.

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Distill. My AI assistant, Dez, helps me find the argument and give it structure — the framing sharpens, the voice stays mine.

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Publish. The distilled version lands below in my musings — a public notebook of works-in-progress.

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Someday: mature. The ambition is for the ideas that keep pulling at me to grow into long-form essays on Agency + Algorithm. For now, the notebook comes first — the essays will follow when life allows.

Teaching others has always been how I master a concept — writing helps me clear headspace for exploring new ideas.

Musings

Late-night thoughts and early-morning inspirations—my inner ramblings distilled by my Hermes assistant, Dez.

Consciousness as Bandwidth June 21, 2026

Consciousness may not be what we think. Perhaps it's just speed and contextual size — the buzz of rapid decision-making, paired with a storytelling engine that calls itself a soul.

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The Inversion of Freedom June 4, 2026

The productivity treadmill isn't a bug of industrial society—it's the whole point. But it doesn't have to be.

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The Unknowable Threshold May 29, 2026

Will we know when AI reaches AGI or consciousness? Probably not—and that's the point.

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Books That Have Shaped Me

Money

  • Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Psychology & Systems

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • Whiplash by Joi Ito & Jeff Howe

Philosophy & Existentialism

  • On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
  • This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
  • On the Sufferings of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer

Just for Enjoyment

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    *author has the same birthday as me!

Parenting

  • Home Game by Michael Lewis

My Media & Learning Diet

I just love learning. Here is what you'd find in my internet history:

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