I’m a Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room Fellow. I wrote for Mo Willems, Emily Brundige, Tim McKeon, PBS, Netflix, Nickelodeon, and Apple TV. Those writing rooms taught me kids deserve the same respect any audience does. Are some challenged by object permanence? Sure. But don’t talk down to them. And don’t take advantage of them. I once asked Mo Willems what the target age for our show was and he shot back, “From birth to death.” I loved that.

Then I had a kid. And I started wondering what storytelling could look like beyond the screen. I got curious how machine learning, from voice recognition to computer vision, could open up something more active, physical, and social. I’m still the eleven-year-old who taught himself to code Turbo Pascal. So I thought, “Why don’t I figure out what I want for my child?”

I went to work at Kibeam Learning, a startup building a screenless interactive device that reads physical books, launches games, and prompts kids to jump, twirl, and move. Neat! I worked in a technical role there, alongside writers, musicians, and voice talent. And I found the work I want to keep doing: building the tools that cut friction so creators can just create.

I also started building my own project. Tell Me a Story is an end-to-end system for parents and kids who tell stories together. The technology lives on the periphery while the focus remains on the human connections around storytelling.

My goal is technology that gets out of the way. Products and experiences rooted in the physical, the real world, movement, our bodies. The kind that makes space for humans to be humans, and kids to be kids.