I've rebuilt my career three times, and each time it started with teaching myself something.

I studied economics, which is a polite way of saying I graduated without knowing what I wanted to do. What I did know was that I liked problems with structure to them. That led me to data, and data led me to code, and code turned out to be the thing I couldn't stop doing.

So I taught myself. Then I went to a bootcamp to fill the gaps I couldn't see. Then I did a Master's in computer science because I wanted the parts that don't show up in tutorials: the theory, the math, the reasons things work. I became a data engineer, then an engineering manager, and found out that leading people is its own discipline and I had a lot to learn there too.

Now I'm finishing an MBA and looking for what's next in AI. The pattern is obvious in hindsight. Every few years I find a thing I don't understand, get uncomfortably interested in it, and rearrange my life around learning it properly. I've stopped treating that as a detour.

What I actually enjoy is the moment between reading about an idea and getting it running. Most of what I build starts there, including the two projects on this site.

Off-hours I'm usually reading about nervous system science, meditating, going to EDM shows, or writing essays about what I'm learning.