Lifelong learner · builder · perpetual beginner
I'm a compulsive learner. I find something I'm bad at — a language, a melody, a dice game, a business — dig up the honest, fastest way to get a little less bad at it, and build or write whatever falls out. Most of it I'm still mid at. That gap, slowly closing, is the most interesting thing I know.
Down the rabbit hole lately shipping Flua · learning French for a move to Toronto · designing a dice roguelike · still trying to actually sing
What I'm in the middle of
From three fields that have no business being next to each other. None of them are finished — that's sort of the whole point. Each has its own story if you want it.
I watched anime for ten years and learned five words. Then I taught myself Japanese to A1 in about twenty focused hours — once I'd found the method and stopped using it wrong. Everyone I showed it to bounced off the setup, so I spent a year building the version with no setup. It's done; I'm the paperwork standing between it and launch.
A weight tracker built so the graph does the nagging. My mom lost 17 lbs with it — still the proudest a piece of my code has ever made me. the story →
Balatro convinced me a deckbuilder could be a perfect object. So now I'm nerd-sniped into finding out what that same magic does to dice. Very much in the messy, figuring-it-out stage. what I'm chasing →
The range
Everything I've gotten obsessed enough with to make something. Not eight tidy personalities — just the actual stuff, by category. Each thing has its own page; most of them link to three more.
01 Apps & tools
Small, honest software — the kind I'd actually want to use.
02 Games
Take a system apart, find the fun, build it back better.
03 Worlds & writing
I've been building worlds since before I could finish them.
04 Words & voice
Rebuilding the half of myself I used to outsource — badly, on purpose, in public.
05 The eye
One camera, one prime, and a long argument with the color wheel.
06 Learning itself
The meta-skill under all of it — and the part I find most interesting.
The writing
Stories, opinions, and things I've figured out — each one links to two more. Start anywhere. The honest ones with numbers in the title are the most fun.
Rabbit holes I haven't gone down yet
Through the lens
Portraits, fits, and the cities I've lived in — a month or two at a time. One camera, a single 23mm prime, natural light, graded by hand. I'm still learning the eye; I just like the chase.
Let's learn something together
Collaborators, co-conspirators, fellow rabbit-holers. If any of these threads is also yours — or you just want to compare obsessions — say hi. The best things in my life started as a five-hour first conversation with a stranger.
