How I think.
I'm Hadley. I am a product manager, systems thinker, and a builder. I've spent 20 years building software products for real people — and since 2017, products where machine learning and AI do the heavy lifting. The way I work hasn't changed: I draw the system until it makes sense, then build it. This site is that archive.
What I'm working on now
A memory system that carries my context between sessions — so more of my ideas turn into real work, across projects and devices.
The case study of building this site — how I think and how I work with AI to make the artifact you're reading.
A knowledge graph of the American West — geology, mining, history, and land data stitched into one map you can ask. Built to find the places no single guidebook would point you to.
Thin lines, generous margins, restrained color, and diagrammatic structure — so the work reads before the layout does.