welcome to my website. blog: articles I wrote. some in progress, all reflecting thoughts i had at the time of writing. some journal entries, too, which ar...
My journal posts may contain incomplete thoughts or ramblings... Don't read this as something fully formed. This is mostly for me, and if you find it interesting, that's cool too. Some things on my mind with business development. Monopolies versus a healthier, more distributed, economy. How does this influence the creation of startups that are designed to be acquired by monopolies (the aqui-hire…
Why do we need to measure nature to value it? Why can’t we just leave it alone? I’ve been thinking about this for a bit. I think there’s something kind of weird about having the need to measure nature in order to value it. Of course nature is valuable. It provides us with food, clean water, clean air, shelter, resources to build, medicine to heal… the list goes on. So why can’t we just sequester…
I grew up wanting to be an inventor. Inspired by films like “Back to the Future”, I wanted to build cool stuff. Time machines were particular interest of mine — spending precious before-bedtime playtime as a child building them out of my toys with my Mom. Perhaps a classic engineer’s story that some others can relate to! Through a high school robotics club, I developed a passion for robotics — a…
Motivation I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while now. I’ve been using ROS, the Robot Operating System, with varying degrees of intensity over the past 9 years. It was how I was introduced to learning about distributed systems programming techniques used for robotics, and the software paradigms that it enforces have stuck with me and helped form how I view a lot of software. The…