Understand deeply,
act clearly.
Morel is where I build tools to understand my life and share what I learn along the way. I do a lot of side projects across fitness, AI research, coding agent experiments, designing human-in-the-loop UX. I see Morel as a space where I can share some of those insights. I use AI to more deeply understand the problems I face at work and in my daily life — not to delegate decisions, but to gather information and better understand the context.
Building Now
I'm working on an AI-powered life tracker. Yeah, there's MyFitnessPal and Strava, but since I've been recovering from my ACL surgery, I've been looking more and more to Claude and Gemini Research to understand what questions to ask my PT and surgeon, learn more about the biomechanics involved, get a sense of the nutrition and workouts that will most help me return to soccer and pickleball safely. I found I wanted a better way of grounding my practices in research, tracking my lifts and macros, and seeing my progress over time. So Flourish is an application I'm building to facilitate that and probably a whole lot more over time.
This is a place I post various pieces of research. Largely this will be written by me with AI spellcheck/grammar, but on occasion I may post clearly labeled AI content such as research reports written by Claude Code. I find seeing what those reports look like and how a data scientist uses those outputs to be really useful. You'll also see more business-focused posts and commentary similar to Simon Willison's blog.
About
I'm Tyler. I'm a data scientist working in healthcare tech and AI tooling. Over the last 8 or so years I've worked on reinforcement learning projects in diabetes research, engaged with numerous pharma companies to better use Real World Evidence data, and brought best practices and tools like GitHub, Airflow, and most recently Claude Code into my team's work. I believe in a personal touch — I'd rather help someone dive into their problem on a call or in person than send them a line of code or speculate over Slack. I mean, how much fun is it to discover a tool and share what you're doing with someone else? To run a dozen experiments and discover some new nugget and geek out about it over a few beers? In the rest of my spare time, I do a lot of reading of sci-fi and fantasy, go to MNUFC matches, and travel to cool places to backpack. I'm also a really big biker — perks of living in the most bikeable city in the US!