I entered industry a couple of years ago at NVIDIA after a radical conversion from atheism to Catholicism. I had arrived at what was once my dream — but quickly became disillusioned as I watched the people around me imprudently bringing technologies into the world in ways that hurt people. Whether it was the attention economy or generative AI (which I immediately suspected would lead to AI pornography), I realized that these monsters were entering the world and that the people unleashing them did not care about their effects, so long as they could retain their status and money.

Once I thought through the implications of this, I became disgusted with myself and the system I was contributing to. I ran away from Silicon Valley with a secret prayer of one day being able to fight this rotten system head on, but knew the time was not yet to do so.

A couple of months ago, it became evident that the time had finally come. I quit my job with the intent to dedicate my life towards tackling these problems. Soon after, I co-founded Camino with Alex to take on digital and pornography addiction — with the broader goal of one day enabling the prudent use of technology altogether.

Doing something good has always enticed me more than money or comfort, but it took three decades for me to see that clearly enough to pursue the former with all that I have; I spent my twenties trying to figure out what to do with my life while building up a career in software sales on the side.

The turn of my fourth decade invited questions: Do I want to be doing what I am currently doing for another thirty years? Does God want me alone in front of a screen for most of my life? These were the least existential of my questions, which eventually led me to pursue a masters in Catholic Studies (University of St. Thomas) while working full time, taking it on faith that this would be a portal into whatever God had next for me.

Indeed it was; it reshaped the way I see the world and equipped me with the grammar to express it and the courage to follow the examples of the heroes of the Catholic tradition who gave their all without counting the costs. A trip to Kolkata to serve with the Missionaries of Charity and attending the canonization of Pier Giorgio Frassati in Rome (with Jacob) were two of the most poignant moments of a pivotal 2025 which ended with my voluntary resignation from my job and entry into the unknown.

This sabbatical came to an end when the Holy Spirit, in very clear terms, arranged for Jacob and I to begin Camino. While researching for my master's thesis on the vice of curiositas, I read Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt and saw the immediate widespread, bipartisan willingness to tackle digital addiction. Coupled with the witness of three young men who had given their best and highest to help fight porn and digital addiction (Brendan and Josh from Ethos, Nick from Shift), I came to firmly believe that now is the cultural moment where we are ready to call a spade a spade, dig in, and figure out how to help everyone become unaddicted.

Freedom was given to me six years ago when I learned that the habit that was foisted upon me at a young age was in fact an addiction which I had not freely chosen. My paradigm shifted after cycling through the same AA-style pornography recovery program nine times with both my blood and bosom brothers helping me as accountability partners. It became clear to me that these two things, Accountability and the right Program, were essential to recovery.

The crisis of loneliness has left scores of humans bereft of real relationships, making it extremely unlikely that they will have the nine bosom or blood brothers, like I was so lucky to have, to ask to walk with them along their recovery journey. Even if they do, will they be able to overcome their own shame?

Camino comes from the simple desire to give to others what I have been given, and a firm belief that their only chance to encounter that gift is in the form of a beautifully designed app intended to heal the human instead of exploit the user.