I spend my days architecting systems and building products. When I’m not writing code, I keep returning to the intersection of technology, human psychology, startups, health, and timeless wisdom.
About me
I am currently Co-founder and CTO at Tectonic Technologies Inc
Beyond code, I care about:
- Coffee as fuel for deep work and contemplation
- Photography as a way to notice fleeting moments
- Cats are excellent companions
- Watches are examples of craftsmanship and precision
- Elegant solutions to inherently messy problems
What This Garden Is For
The filter is simple: would I reference this again?
Most of this garden is curated, not originally authored from scratch. It includes ideas, quotes, frameworks, protocols, excerpts, and notes gathered from books, podcasts, essays, conversations, and public thinkers, then organized in a way that makes them easier for me to revisit.
When something is mine, it is usually a synthesis, a reframe, or a personal operating note. When something comes from someone else, the intent is preservation and attribution-aware curation, not claiming authorship.
These are not random collections. They are ideas I return to while building products, leading teams, making decisions, or trying to think more clearly about what comes next.
This is a living document and a living garden. It grows, gets reorganized, and occasionally gets pruned.
Personal Beliefs and Life Principles
These are beliefs and principles collected from experience, failure, repetition, and the thinkers I keep learning from.
- Take care of the people who work with you, and the work will take care of itself.
- Know thyself is the greatest purpose of life.
- Meaning matters more than happiness.
- I know nothing.
- I do not blame anything or anyone for my failures or bad decisions. Only myself.
- Discipline is the highest form of self-love.
- Our greatest teachers come disguised as difficulties.
- Deep understanding is the foundation of all effective problem-solving.
- Real wealth is having absolutely no health problem.
Skills to Cultivate
- Showing up when you do not feel like it
- Self-reliance
- Emotional intelligence
Favorite Quotes
- “The obstacle is the way.” - Marcus Aurelius
- “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
- “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” - Steve Jobs
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates
- “Do not go gentle into that good night.” - Dylan Thomas
- “Not wanting something gives you freedom and same pleasure as acquiring it.”
- “You are what you eat.”
- “The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.”
- “Don’t eat with someone you can’t starve with.”
- “Life is not fair, get used to it.” - Bill Gates
- “Learning is repeated recall, not repeated exposure.”
- “The only way out is through.”
- “Learning/Insights is a smart person’s favourite form of procrastination.”
Connect
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