My name is Brad Barrish. I grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and have lived in Los Angeles, California longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. I live with my wife Laura Hess, our daughter, Cassidy and son, Ozzie.
I’m currently Chief Technology Officer for Frank & Eileen. I was previously the COO and co-founder of Clarity, a neurotech company working to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. I remain an advisor for Clarity. Prior to Clarity, I was Vice President of Customer Experience at Oura and Director of Customer Experience at Sonos. You can see the rest of my career history on LinkedIn.
I love working with founders and founding teams, which I did for several years as an All-Star Mentor for Techstars and as a Fellow with Conduit Venture Labs. My mentorship primarily focuses on early-stage startups developing consumer-oriented products and services. I also enjoy collaborating with leaders throughout their careers to foster leadership styles rich in emotional intelligence to help build company cultures that grow and retain exceptional people.
I have limited time, but if you are interested in working together, reach out! I’m brad at this domain. I don’t feel particularly connected to any social networks the way I once felt about Twitter (RIP) and while I have accounts on many, I’m not really active on any social networks. I feel strongly that everyone should have their own domain and should publish stuff on the open web. Despite what many institutions, companies and cynical people would have you believe, there’s still a lot of wonderful, real people creating and publishing online. I’m not only here for it, I’m contributing to it.
My Setup
I use an iPhone 16 Pro as my trusty pocket computer. I have a few machines for personal use. I primarily use a MacBook Air M4. I also have a Mac mini M4, which gets used for AI hacking and an older Intel Mac mini running Linux that I use as a server. My work machine is a MacBook Pro M4 Max. I gave up my iPad and have no desire to replace it at the moment. I shoot photos with a Fujifilm X-T5, which I’m slowly learning how to shoot with.
If I’m leaving the connected devices behind, I’m writing primarily in Midori MD Notebook Journals, size A5 with dot grid using Zebra Sarasa Clip Pen 0.4 mm (black, of course). I always have my Kindle Paperwhite loaded with books, but also occasionally carry a physical book as well.
This site is hosted on Micro.blog. I mostly use Gmail and iCloud+ with custom domains. I use Apple Calendar for appointments. I mainly use Dia to browse the web, but Safari is nice too. I like Orion on iOS. I use Unread with Feedbin for RSS, which is my predominant interface with the web. I save web things to Sublime and Raindrop. I use Reader to read, highlight and annotate articles, papers, posts, newsletters and any other text on the web. Obsidian is, more or less, my second brain. I use it for journaling, note-taking and research. I also have a vault that is primarily used with AI. I use Apple Notes when I need to share notes.
I’m constantly trying out all kind of AI tools and use various models, but probably use Claude the most of any of them. And I mostly use Claude Code as my interface. Since I’m introducing a lot of people to Claude at work, I also use Claude Cowork a fair amount for work stuff. I use Perplexity Pro for questions I would normally ask a traditional web search engine, but still pay for and use Kagi.
Last updated: 2026-04-04

