It's been a trip.

I graduated from high school with direction and entered the University of Pennsylvania without. Two years' water-treading finally produced the finest intellectual discoveries of my life: capital-p Philosophy and, in particular, formal logic. Compulsive pursuit of these yielded a deep, structural understanding of the English language, which informs my editorial work today. 

After college, I moved to New York. An accomplished but partially deluded musician, I turned down work as a philosophy and law editor at an academic press, instead taking an unpaid sales and marketing internship at music mag Spin. That turned into full-time marketing work. One day I started analyzing market research, which led to creating sales narratives for Spin's advertising team, which led to a promotion into ad sales, selling print space to record labels. I then took a search engine marketing position at Yahoo!, which could've meant a respectable and lucrative career. But I hated it. In part to cope, I turned my crumbling industrial Brooklyn apartment into The Yolk, a DIY performance space hosting monthly shows and parties where I could drink and dance myself into oblivion.

Post-Yahoo!, I founded The Ethical Man, a socially responsible e-commerce site selling vegan menswear. Editorial work creeped into it through the company blog, which I penned. I then launched Cllctv ("Collective"), a morally conscious editorial-and-deals site that, although it never took off the way I'd hoped, refined my approach to writing and editing and kickstarted my interest in photography.

I then became involved with Daily Nutmeg, helping launch it in January 2012. At first my work focused mostly on design, technology, production and photo editing, but I soon wormed my way into editing stories, becoming the official editor in the summer of 2012.

Less than a year later, DN's lead writer moved on, and I took on the load he'd been carrying. For years, I wrote, photographed and self-edited well over 100 stories per year. I also edited another 100+ each year by other writers; performed all production and design work for the publication, plus most of the photo editing; and led special projects as they came up.

Though I now write less often, I still edit 250+ stories a year.