About & Focus Areas

I write about Experiments, Analytics/Data Eng, Embedded ML & OSS. Feel free to connect with me over any of the social channels below.

Interesting People & Principles

▪️ Ray Dalio - "Truth - more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality - is the essential foundation for any good outcome." Mistakes are learning opportunities that, when analyzed objectively, lead to personal and professional evolution.

▪️ John Maynard Keynes - "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" Treat knowledge as a rolling beta test - always update your views when new data arrives.

▪️ Biodynamic Farmer - "The farm should be its own world - a self-contained, living organism that generates its own fertility and health." Derived from Rudolf Steiner's agricultural lectures. Treating the farm as an integrated, living ecosystem where soil, plants, animals, and compost work in a closed, regenerative loop.

▪️ Raymond Ackerman - "If you do not care for your customer, someone else will." Business must equally balance the interests of the customer, the supplier, the staff, and the shareholder to remain stable and successful.

▪️ Nelson Mandela - "It always seems impossible until it's done." Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. True leadership requires inspiring others to move forward through unity, forgiveness, and long-term vision.

▪️ Marie Curie - "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Pushing the boundaries of human knowledge through rigorous testing, dedication, and resilience regardless of external barriers.

▪️ Wangari Maathai - "It’s the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."Lasting systemic change begins at the grassroots level by empowering local communities to heal and protect their natural environment.

▪️ Richard Feynman - "If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it." The Toy Model. When a big, scary problem is too hard to figure out, play with it like a little toy block. Break it down into the easiest, most basic pieces until it makes complete sense, and then build your understanding back up.

▪️ John Muir - "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." View every project or business as an interconnected living web rather than isolated parts.

▪️ Masanobu Fukuoka - "The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings." Leave systems, soils, and relationships healthier than you found them.

▪️ Greek Proverb - "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit." Build for multi-generational impact instead of immediate quarterly gains.

▪️ African Proverb - "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Form connections across differences to achieve objectives that no single individual can manage alone.

▪️ Maya Angelou - "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Understand the human context behind every team member, customer, and stakeholder.

▪️ Steve Jobs - "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." Align your daily work with a deeper mission that transcends financial return.

▪️ Lao Tzu - "It is wise to persuade people and make them think it is their own idea. And be sure of your self-reliance; you must stand on your own feet." Build internal resilience and self-reliance to weather external shocks.

▪️ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Theory is vital, but momentum is generated entirely by execution.

▪️ Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." Recognize that true growth (in nature, knowledge, and culture) cannot be rushed.