Welcome to my blog.
I started this site because I wanted a place to collect thoughts, and questions that didn’t really fit anywhere else.
A lot of the things I find myself thinking about sit somewhere on the borders between professional experience, academic interest, and personal curiosity. I tend to be drawn to questions about technology, the mind, and systems. That curiosity covers several different interrelated topics. Some of those thoughts are directly connected to my professional work. Others come from school, reading, conversations, or simply noticing patterns in the world and wanting somewhere to put them.
For a while, I thought about using LinkedIn for more of this. But LinkedIn has a particular tone I don’t feel fits these thoughts. It can be useful, but it often feels very corporate, performative, and lends itself to short-form content engineered to garner views and reactions. These observations aren’t really announcements or selling my personal brand as a thought leader. Many of these thoughts aren’t really polished enough to be articles, but they are still worth keeping.
I also think we have moved away from long-form blogging in a way that feels like a loss to me. There is something useful about having a personal place on the internet where ideas can accumulate over time. Perhaps this is nostalgia for an earlier internet, but not every thought needs to be optimized to generate visibility. Sometimes it is valuable just to write something down, explain it clearly, and have a stable place to refer back to it later.
So that is the purpose of this site. It is partly a notebook, partly a professional blog, and partly a place for open-ended inquiry. I expect some posts will be fairly practical, especially the more professional posts around data, technology, and business systems. Others may be more academic or reflective, especially around AI, cognitive science, and research. Some may also just be attempts to understand or explore something interesting to me a bit more clearly.
I am not trying to make this blog into a publication in the formal sense. I am trying to create a space where I can think, record observations for myself, and occasionally share ideas that may be useful or interesting to others. My hope is that over time this becomes a useful archive of what I have been reading, learning, building, and thinking about. If it ever truly achieves my wildest ambitions for it, then it’ll be a place where these thoughts can lead to interesting conversations.
Image Description: This photo was taken from my office window on an especially beautiful spring day. For about one week each year, the decorative cherry tree outside my window is in full bloom. This was one of those days.
