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A guided tour of how I think, build, and communicate

If you’re new here, this is the shortest path to work that best represents me. The throughlines I aim for are clear reasoning, thoughtful systems, and human-centered storytelling.

⏱️ The quickest path (4 reads)

If you only have 20 minutes, start with these:

  1. How I Organized My Mermaid Life — Treat Mermaid diagrams like visual source code with a home, structure, and a tiny bit of automation.
  2. Rescuing my Exercise KPIs from a Puppy-shaped Root Cause — A data story about analyzing 13 years of running data with ML, visualization and finding answers to real-world questions.
  3. Data Scientist’s Toolkit: Intro to the AWS CLI — A friendly, hands-on guide to provisioning a secure, cloud-native database entirely from the command line.
  4. Austin, Boston… Why I only live in cities that rhyme — A timeline with the major “eras” of this data scientst’s journey.

Choose your lane

📖 If you want data storytelling:

Read about see the full arc from raw data to insight, for projects where I personally curated my own dataset (usually about me :).


🔬 If you want technical depth:

Field notes and tutorials, experiments, and lessons learned from building real-world systems. These pieces show reusable frameworks for building real systems that work for real people.


✍️ If you want to know more about how I think:

Essays and personal perspectives that connect cognitive science to data systems, AI and interface design. These pieces reveal the mental models guiding my builds.

🧭 Keep exploring

If you want the full library, these hubs make it easy to browse by format or topic.


If you’re hiring or evaluating fit, I recommend starting with the four reads above and then exploring the full map.