Hi, I'm Sam. I am the lead software engineer at Flycore, a customer relationship management tool for flight schools.
I am also a private pilot with an instrument rating, high performance and complex endorsements.
I hold a B.S. in Communications from NYU.
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Work
Software Engineer at Flycore, prev. Patchbay, Seven, PostHog (YC W20).
Writing
- Building a NAS on a razor-thin budgethardwareWhy let perfectly good drives go to waste?
- Field of DreamsflyingLanding amid the cornfields of Minnesota
- Instrument CheckrideflyingI am now an instrument rated pilot (after significant effort)
- Learning hard thingsideasInspiration, inputs, failure, repetition.
- Resources for self-taught developersideasThe stuff I didn’t learn in school
- The art and science of driving stickhardwareideasOne Man’s Approach to Manual Transmissions
- The Private Pilot Checkride: my experienceflyingHere's how the practical exam went for me
- Seven Invites: Editable flyersjavascriptui-uxAs founding engineer, I built many of the creative & social features for this app. Here's one.
- Notes on learning to flyflyingTraining in a Piper Cherokee
- The steady hand and the flying machineflyingideasThe machine is the enabler, a metric ton of metal sailing through the open sky, if nothing more.
- Dream ExceptionideasmysticismAt some point my questions began to transcend the spoken or written word
- Flight sim hardwarehardwareCombining hobbyist electronics and aviation
- Builders and PromotersideasTwo types of people I’ve worked with in tech
- On misunderstandingideasThe best piece of advice I’ve received on writing and coding
- Complexity and lifeideasmysticismThe middle path between fear and love: of God and the sciences
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without WorkideasGreat ideas, confused solutions
- Automating an indoor gardenhardwareLearning about hardware, embedded programming, and web security
- The 3 best things I've done for my terminal experienceshellFig, zsh, and Dark+: A Simple and Productive Terminal Setup on OSX
- Tunestack.fmawsjavascriptui-uxA social networking app for music lovers to share reviews of their favorite albums.
- Beauty in the time of algorithmsideasmysticismStill in the eye of the beholder
- Buildings, trees, and resilience: a COVID meditationideasI miss coffee chats and running into friends on the way to class.
- PostersartA poster a day: Feb–Mar 2019
- Modernizing a magazineFrom designing spreads to designing a culture of belonging: my leadership path at NYU Baedeker
- On productivity: tools and good booksideasI'm obsessed with optimizing repetitive tasks so that I can be more effective.
- Medium is the messageartideasHow to Make a Mess
- Go placidly amid the noise and hasteideasA set of guiding principles I work to uphold.
























