I'm a retired software engineer / software architect / director of engineering. Now I make things just for fun, and write about it.
- Current Goals: learn a lot, work on fun problems, write, and meet interesting people.
- Spare time: I'm the organizer of three Pittsburgh-area meetup groups:
- virtual writers (584 members)
- non-fiction book club (1613 members)
- virtual board games (1800 members)
- Good Idea, Bad Metaphor, Great Resignation
- On Learning Chinese, Brains, and AI
- Understanding is All You Need
- Don't Looks at the Hand
- Let's Get Small
- Type Safety, Low-fat Diets, and Cheese
- The Joy of Coding
- Hidden Complexity is Complexity
- Putting the Fun in Functional
- Surprise! You Don't Exist
- Amor Fati and Wabi-Sabi
- The Whole Nine Yards
- How To Write
- Build an ark? Or nail pizza to the wall?
- I Am Groot!
- The Myth of Willpower
- Manly Mindfulness
- 11 Foods You Should Never Eat