About

I grew up in California, lived in Japan, and I’ve spent a career crossing cultures, disciplines, products, and media.

Ben Foden smiling, wearing sunglasses on a sunny day

I like showing the work as I go: walkthroughs with the mistakes left in, so what I learned stays usable by someone else.

I’ve worked as an exec, a builder, a consultant, and a coder, and a lot of things in between. I don’t think the range is the interesting part. What I care about is shipping. I’d rather put something real and a little rough into the world than sit on it forever getting it perfect, and the Projects page is what’s actually made it out recently.

When I work on a system, I’m really thinking about the people on the other end of it: someone stuck on a broken process, someone new to the tools, a team trying to ship. That’s what I keep coming back to, whether it’s a product, an AI agent, or a go-to-market plan.

The best way to reach me is a DM. I’m on GitHub, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn, and I read what comes in.