My Hobbies
Side quests worth pursuing
Games
Games got me into this industry and I still can't stop playing them. All kinds indie experiments, massive multiplayer worlds, weird experimental stuff. I play because I want to understand how they work. What makes you want to keep playing? Why does this feel satisfying and that feels like garbage? How do you get a UI out of the way? There's no better way to study interaction design than playing a game that nails it. And yeah, I just like games.
Books
I read everything. Fiction, history, psychology, technical stuff. Fiction teaches you how humans actually work. History teaches you how systems break. Technical books keep you from making the same mistakes twice. My nightstand is a disaster. Right now I'm halfway through five books.
AI Projects
I build things with LLMs. At work, integrating them into real systems that have to work. Outside work, just messing around. Agents, prompt engineering, wild ideas that probably won't go anywhere. The gap between what people say LLMs can do and what they actually do is where the interesting work lives. Lots of hype. Some real breakthroughs. Figuring out which is which.
Woodworking
Software disappears. You ship it, it lives in the cloud, gets rewritten, vanishes. Woodworking is the opposite. You cut a board, join it, finish it, and it's still there. Physical. Someone uses it for years. Measure twice. Sand until it feels right. Mistakes are expensive. That's the whole lesson.