Articles
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I Am Not an Engineer. I Am the Emotional Engineer.
4 min read
Oxygen Not Included taught me systems engineering through care, maintenance, and the desire to keep my dupes happy.
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Math, Memory, and the Courage to Try Again
3 min read
Helping a teenager with algebra unexpectedly became a lesson about aging, learning, brain exercise, and the emotional psychology of staying cognitively alive.
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Can Your New Relationship Survive Daylight?
3 min read
Why the morning after reveals more than the date itself.
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Maintenance Is Systems Engineering
4 min read
Before I ever became ann AI/ML engineer, I spent decades learning a different kind of systems engineering: maintaining a human body over time.
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From Copy-Pasting HTML to Shipping on Vercel
4 min read
How Pegasus and I evolved from manually uploading HTML files to building a modern AI-augmented publishing system with Next.js, GitHub, and Vercel.
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HRT Is Not Magic
2 min read
Real adult health is usually built slowly through systems, recovery, and sustainable patterns — not one magical intervention.
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The Problem With Magical Transformation
1 min read
Sustainable change is usually less dramatic and more compassionate.