Building now
TomatoRTC: live infrastructure beyond the video call.
A programmable participant fabric for humans, agents, devices, browsers, and services operating in one coordinated real-time system.
Explore TomatoRTC ↗Founder + systems architectTechnology + creative practiceTaiwan / global
Architecturewith a human pulse.
✦ NATHANIEL “NAT” CURRIER / TOMATORTC / NAT.IO
I build and lead complex AI, cloud, WebRTC, and real-time systems, connecting architecture, engineering execution, product strategy, and customer trust.
This is also where I explore food, health, music, relationships, creative practice, and the small systems that shape a meaningful life.
Current professional practice
Founder, executive technology leader + hands-on architect.
I founded TomatoRTC to build real-time participant infrastructure for products where people, AI agents, devices, and services share live context. I also work across CTO, VP Engineering, Chief Architect, advisory, and founder-in-residence mandates where technical complexity has become a product, delivery, or customer-trust problem.
Ways into the workAssess · Frame · Review
Deterministic diagnostic
AI Delivery
Stress Test
Ten fixed questions reveal delivery risk across reliability, architecture, execution, and governance.
Decision artifact
CTO Readiness
Memo
Turn fixed scoring into a one-page readiness view, top risks, and a practical 90-day plan.
Executive brief
Experience,
without the pitch.
A concise record of operating range across AI, cloud, WebRTC, engineering leadership, and product delivery.
NowCurrent practice
Practicing
Repeatable meals with less weekday friction.
Small health systems designed for metabolic stability and ordinary busy days.
The meal system ↗Learning
How craft compounds across long horizons.
Consistency in music, writing, and technical work without flattening curiosity.
The practice ↗Just publishedBrowse writing ↗
Jul 2026 · 24 min read
The Destination Is No Longer a Website. It Is an Outcome.
Search once sent people to websites. AI now synthesizes answers and increasingly completes tasks. Businesses must make their knowledge discoverable, trustworthy, and actionable to systems acting for customers.
Read the field note ↗Question of the day · Today
If your flagship AI workflow had to justify its existence in one KPI, which KPI would survive scrutiny?
Who this is forA useful filter
Stay awhile if
- You care about systems that work in real environments, not just demos.
- You want practical ideas you can test this week.
- You value thinking across technology, health, and creative practice.
Probably skip it if
- You want hype, shortcuts, or certainty where uncertainty is real.
- You prefer surface summaries over implementation detail.
- You want every idea to fit neatly inside one topic.
Technology matters when it expands human agency. This is a working notebook for technology, life systems, creative practice, and big-picture views.
Read the manifesto ↗Selected writingAll field notes ↗
Jul 2026
Knowledge Systems Operate Between Uncertainties
The user has an incomplete question, and the knowledge base has an incomplete account of reality. Intelligent systems do not eliminate that uncertainty. They turn competing evidence into actionable confidence.
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Jul 2026
AI Code Has a Conversation Debt
The risk of AI-generated code is not simply that it can be wrong. It is that teams lose the learning conversation that turns questionable choices into better engineering judgment.
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Jul 2026
Git Worktrees and Scoped Commit Hooks Are the Safety Rails for Agentic Coding
Branches record intent, but worktrees and scoped commit hooks make parallel local agent work isolated, reviewable, and safer to integrate.
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Jul 2026
The Loop That Looks Like Thinking
Anxiety can borrow the voice of responsibility and systems thinking. The goal is not to optimize it into a superpower, but to convert its signal into a bounded action or a request for support.
Read ↗Weekly challenges Challenge archive ↗
Pick one, run it this week, and document what changed. The goal is action, not perfection.
BUILD20 MIN
HTTP Contract Check
Verify that one API boundary behaves like an explicit contract under success and failure.
- Choose one endpoint consumed by another system or client.
- Trigger one success path and three error paths with realistic payloads.
- Fix one mismatch in status codes or error shape before the week ends.
LIVE20 MIN
Five-Hour Recovery System
Reclaim deep-work time by removing friction from one recurring task sequence.
- Pick one task you repeat at least three times each week.
- Pre-stage files, prompts, and context so startup takes less than two minutes.
- Track one week of usage and capture the minutes you recovered.
CREATE25 MIN
Creative Recovery Day
Protect momentum on a low-capacity day by shipping a reduced but intentional creative session.
- Pick a minimum viable output that can be done in one short session.
- Use one constraint (time, format, or instrument) and finish without polishing.
- Log one sentence about what preserved momentum for the next session.
DISCOVER20 MIN
Legibility Signal Audit
Improve one project update so stakeholders can evaluate your capability without guesswork.
- Choose one update or status report from the past two weeks.
- Add explicit outcomes, tradeoffs, and ownership instead of effort descriptions.
- Share the revised version and ask one stakeholder what became clearer.
From the kitchen
Egg & Greek Yogurt Baked "French Toast"
A protein-rich, low-carb reimagining of French toast with no bread at all—just eggs and Greek yogurt transformed into a custardy, cinnamon-spiced breakfast that satisfies without the blood sugar spike.
Cook this ↗About this space