Encore
I have friends who seem to catch every show, and I could never keep up with all the announcements and on-sale dates. So I built Encore — scan your inbox, see your crew's lineup, and stop being the one who finds out too late.
Take a lookA recovering web developer turned plant-coddling, sourdough-feeding, cocktail-stirring generalist. I have many tabs open. Most of them are bears.
Meet the bearThe "Webear" thing is half pun, half lifestyle. Bears are nature's most committed generalists — they fish, they forage, they nap for entire seasons, they steal pies off windowsills. I aspire to that kind of range, minus the pie larceny (most weeks).
By trade I'm currently a gardener and landscaper, which means my hands are usually in dirt. By temperament I'm the kind of brain that picks up a hobby like it's a shiny rock and won't put it down for six months. Sometimes that produces a sourdough starter named Gary. Sometimes it produces a piece of software. Sometimes it just produces seventeen browser tabs about ferns.
I work from a tiny den in NYC, but I'm rarely in it. If you don't hear back, I'm probably outside.
The ADHD brain says: ooh, what's that? The bear brain says: I'm gonna build it. These are the two that survived the cull.
I have friends who seem to catch every show, and I could never keep up with all the announcements and on-sale dates. So I built Encore — scan your inbox, see your crew's lineup, and stop being the one who finds out too late.
Take a lookI love to cook, and my mom is a phenomenal cook. When she got into sourdough, she mailed me her starter before I even asked. You'll love this, she said. She was right. The sourdough community never stops rising. I built this for everyone chasing the next loaf — and for the people who handed them their first one.
Take a lookOn the side — and increasingly in front — I work as a gardener and landscaper. There is something deeply satisfying about a job whose feedback loop runs in seasons.
Code rewards you in milliseconds. Plants reward you in months. Both are honest about what they need; only one occasionally gives you tomatoes.
I'll happily talk dirt with anyone. Soil amendments, native plant lists for the Northeast, why your fiddle-leaf fig is dramatic, what to do with a shaded brownstone backyard — text me.
Got a project, a plant question, a cocktail recommendation, or just want to talk about bears? The den is open. I'll usually answer within a day, unless I'm hibernating, gardening, or both.