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Poetry

I write poetry at night, in Hebrew and in English. The line shows up in every conference bio I have ever submitted, so it is only fair that it shows up here too. A small selection may appear on this page eventually; poems are slower to ship than software.

Better Dira (מחיר למשתכן)

Israel's subsidized-housing lottery had an official site so slow and opaque that checking a single lottery was an afternoon project. One free evening in 2022 I built Better Dira in about two hours: sortable lottery lists, live registration counts, real winning odds, the numbers people actually need before deciding where to try their luck. It drew 11,000 visitors in its first day and coverage in Globes. Public infrastructure deserves good interfaces, even when, especially when, nobody is paid to build them.

Otherwise

I read broadly and repeatedly around behavioral economics and Greek mythology, two literatures about the same subject: people making decisions under forces they do not fully see. I grow a grapevine, with mixed results. And I live in Tel Aviv, where both the poetry and the missions tend to start late.