Away from the keyboard
music · yoga · drawingWhat I do away from the screen still shapes what I build.
I've played in the SMC and USC Symphony Orchestras and still take cello at USC. Cello taught me that precision isn't the same as stiffness. You can hit the note and still miss the phrase. It shows up in how I build: the sensor can be accurate, the UI can be correct, and the system can still feel wrong until the rhythm is right.
Piano is where I feel a pattern in my hands before I can name it. Writing is where I work out ideas too slippery for code. Yoga is the counterweight — enough quiet to come back sharper.
I don't keep these because they're useful, though. History, music, and the arguments that never settle are what remind me who the technical work is for.
🎻 Cello
Where I first understood harmonic frequency — strings ringing together, and tuning you feel before you can measure it.
Open Cello Analyzer ↗🎹 Piano
Taught me path-finding before I had the word for it: choosing fingerings and chord routes that get the hand from here to there.
Open Sheet2Finger ↗✍️ Writing
Essays, notes, and fiction about rights, agency, creation, and the strange social lives of machines.
Open British Lit Collection ↗🧘 Yoga
Teaches me to slow down and actually pay attention: reset the body, quiet the noise, then come back sharper.
Open Yoga Atlas ↗Leave a note
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