Dear Reader,

Thank you for being here.

I spent seven years in the classroom, and I still think of myself as a teacher at heart.

Teaching taught me how to explain complicated ideas simply, how to pay attention to the person in front of me, and how often the best learning happens when someone feels safe enough to say, “I don’t get it yet.”

I live for the lightbulb moment—the moment you can almost see something click for someone.

When confusion turns into understanding, and suddenly they realize, “Ohhh, I get it now.”

I don’t think that feeling ever gets old.

That’s also a big part of what draws me to technology. What interests me most isn’t the technology by itself. I’m fascinated by what happens when people interact with it.

The human side of technology.

I tend to look at technology a little like a Rubik’s Cube. I want to turn it around, look at every side, understand how the pieces fit together, and see what happens when one piece moves. I like picking things apart until I really understand them. Then, when I teach it to someone else, my goal is almost the reverse: I want all of those pieces to come together. I want the colors to line up and something that once felt complicated to finally make sense.

Outside of work, I’m still usually learning something. Sometimes it’s programming. Sometimes it’s a language. Sometimes it’s a completely unrelated topic I became fascinated with at 11:47 PM and absolutely did not need to research that night.

But that’s usually where the fun begins.