My Latest Thoughts

As I started picking out my shiny new electric car, I noticed that the ones I was looking at were about $10k more expensive than an ICE version of the same car. That put the “savings at the pump” into a different light.

Stable three body orbits are difficult to solve computationally, but that also makes them a good test for computational methods.

In 2001 MIT published a study on why process improvement typically fails. It was insightful and still highly relevant to what I've seen companies struggle with today.

Someone recently showed me that you can buy a hydrogen generator as a health product for ~$50. It's generally not recommended to do electrolysis at home or on tap water, so I investigated how these work!

Pet insurance combines elements of health insurance and property insurance, and so picking the right plan can be tricky. In this post I go through the math behind a common pet insurance plan to quantify the risk tolerance it caters to.

Sometimes porting a library to a new language works great but doesn't make sense from a design perspective. When you can easily run anything anywhere, system design decisions become more important than ever.

We ordered pizza from five different chains and ranked them to figure out what chain is best. This combined a fun party with collecting data and doing analysis!

Someone recently asked me why teams of experienced engineers still benefit from managers. If the team plans the sprints as a group and pulls tasks from the backlog on their own, what is the manager doing?

I wrote a simple app that surfaces what emails you could delete to free up storage. By analyzing my emails in bulk, I was able to free up space that traditional tools were unable to find.

In Q4 of 2023 we fully remodeled our kitchen without any outside contractors. It was a huge effort, but the end result has been incredible!