Now
A snapshot of what's current. Updated June 2026.
Inspired by nownownow.com.
Working on
- Exploring how AI tools change the way engineers reason about complex systems — not just how fast they write code.
- Building this site as a durable home for writing and project documentation.
- Thinking through energy storage economics and the software infrastructure that makes distributed assets operable.
Learning
- More about human cognition and skill acquisition — how expertise actually forms, and what that means for teaching technical subjects.
- The physics and economics of grid-scale storage — bridging two vocabularies that rarely share a room.
- Automotive audio signal processing — a reminder that perception is the ultimate integration test.
Reading
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows — returning to it for the third time; different lessons each pass.
- Papers on distributed systems consistency — sometimes the old ones are the best ones.
- Long-form essays on energy transition — trying to separate signal from advocacy.
Thinking about
- What makes technical writing genuinely useful versus merely informative.
- How to build organizations that preserve institutional knowledge without creating bureaucracy.
- The gap between simulation and reality in complex systems — and how to design for it.