I've spent nearly 40 years in tech. AI still caught me off guard.

My first real "wait, what just happened" moment came in Photoshop. I was cleaning up a photo of my goats, and when I expanded the image, the software filled in a missing leg on its own. Seamlessly. I sat there for a minute just staring at it. That was the moment I got hooked.

By then I'd already spent decades building technology, mostly at Adobe, with stops at Yahoo and a couple of startups along the way. I got to help launch a business that grew into a billion-dollar product line, lead teams through some genuinely hard turnarounds, and learn from people who shaped the industry, including Adobe's own co-founder. None of that made the goat moment feel small. If anything, it made it feel bigger. After all that time in tech, something still managed to surprise me.

So after I stepped away from my last role, I went looking for a place to keep learning about AI. What I found instead was a gap. Most AI education is built by and for people who've never worried about retirement planning, grandkids, healthcare decisions, or what comes after a career winds down. I understood the hesitation my peers felt because I felt it myself first. That's why I built Wise & Wired Studio, AI education for Baby Boomers, taught by one of us, no jargon, no condescension.

There's a more personal reason too. As I've grown older, managing my own health had gotten complicated, multiple conditions, multiple doctors, medications that seemed to multiply every year. I started using AI to help me keep track of it all, prepare better questions for appointments, and actually understand what my doctors were telling me. It didn't replace my doctors. It made me a sharper patient. That experience became its own course, because if I was struggling to keep up, I figured plenty of people my age were too.

Closer to home, my wife and I have been married 36 years, raised three kids, and now enjoy three grandkids. We raised our family in Los Gatos, California, and these days call the area near Folsom Lake home. Mostly we spend our time trying out new restaurants and spoiling those grandkids every chance we get.