About

I am an engineer. I manage a team, but most of my days are still spent building.

I learn fast, and I love to teach. My favorite part of learning something hard is finding the way to explain it so it is easy.

Where it started

The family computer had a big CRT monitor. It sat on a large wooden desk with a shelf built above it. It ran Windows XP, and later Vista. That is where I played Club Penguin, then Minecraft and Garry's Mod.

Minecraft is where it really started. I installed mods by hand, and I ran servers for my friends over LogMeIn Hamachi. Then I learned port forwarding, so my friends could join without it. That was the first time I made a computer do something it did not do out of the box, and I never stopped.

What I believe

• Make it simple. Make it intuitive. Make it elegant.
• Less friction, less noise, fewer layers.
• Fast is a feature. Slop, bloat and bugs are not.

Steve Jobs told a story about a carpenter who finishes the back of a cabinet, though no one will ever see it. I try to build like that carpenter.

Away from the screen

I am handy, and I like to build random things: a doomsday computer in a Pelican case, an off-grid radio messenger, a pocket transcriber. I also like to write stories.

I am learning guitar. I can play the opening of Autumn Leaves and the opening of Mariage d'amour, both poorly.