My interests revolve around cognitive psychology and its relationship to design and social issues. After earning my PhD in cognitive psychology, I lectured in the computer science department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, while advising a few startups. Eventually I joined Michael Stonebraker’s MIT-spinoff Tamr, where I put together a design team to address issues in big data.

I now reside with my family in the midwest, where I occasionally write about various topics including the mind, tool-use, and social issues. I currently work at Tableau, a data visualization company which acquired MIT-spinoff Empirical Systems, for which I served as advisor.

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