👋 Welcome to Terry’s Blog

Hi, this is Terry. I'm documenting my product ideas and learning notes in this blog. I'm interested in creating new user experiences through generative ai, focusing on synthesized content generation and actionable insight extraction.

About Me

CS & HCI @ Northwestern. Prev product @ Microsoft and TikTok. Experienced in product management and agent implementation. Right now I'm thinking about crowd intelligence, agentic workflows, and traveling the world. In my free time, I like to read. Always happy to chat ;)

Skills

Product

Prototyping, Roadmapping, Event Tracking, A/B Testing, SQL, Figma, JIRA

Programming

Python, C/C++, Javascript, HTML/CSS, Git, React.js, Node, Tensorflow, PyTorch

Growth

SEO, Analytics, Social Media Marketing, Influencer Partnerships, Lead Generation

Work Samples

Independent products I've shipped. For company work, see About.

CrowdListen

Social Listening

Turns large-scale social conversations into insights — sentiment, opinions, and narratives from raw social data.

A2A Catalog

Agent Directory

A directory of A2A agents and MCP servers — discover what's out there and submit your own.

Recent Posts

Tokens and Inference as Bandwidth

WIP notes on tokens, inference capacity, and why the cost and availability of model calls increasingly look like bandwidth for agentic systems.

Be Where the Change Is Happening

Lessons from Northwestern on choosing environments, being early, and putting yourself where important changes are unfolding.

My Thoughts on Designing Interfaces for Agents

As interaction shifts from Human→Tool to Human→Agent→Tool, complexity becomes an affordance—but only if we design for reasoning transfer, progressive visibility, and calibrated trust.