I grew up witnessing households around me struggle for things most people take for granted: electricity, clean cooking energy, basic healthcare. And the systems meant to reach them falling short in ways that were entirely predictable. For more than twenty years that has shaped every significant decision I have made about where to work and what to work on.
Being incorrigibly curious helps. These problems rarely yield to a single discipline or a single lens. A passion for technology, a weakness for exotic themes like philosophy and metacognition, ideas with no obvious connection to what I do professionally, reading widely across all of it. All of it kept finding its way back into the work in ways that were hard to imagine and difficult to explain.
This site is where all of it often finds home.