The same intensity that drives the engineering drives everything else. Some of these are measured in decades, some in altitude.
Not a weekend hobby. A discipline practiced with the same rigor as software engineering. Every jump is a system check — equipment, conditions, decision-making under pressure. Ten thousand repetitions of controlled risk.
"You don't jump out of planes because you're fearless. You do it because you've learned to manage fear systematically."
Training since age five. Decades of discipline, focus, and the understanding that mastery is a direction, not a destination. The dojo teaches patience that no sprint planning meeting ever could.
Since age 5Two wheels, open road, mechanical simplicity. There's a meditative quality to riding that clears the mind better than any productivity technique. The best debugging happens at 60 mph with no screen in sight.
Building with your hands. No undo button, no version control. Just measure twice, cut once. The tangible result of careful planning and execution.
The art and science of mechanical timekeeping. Hundreds of components working in precise harmony. Engineering at its most miniature and beautiful.
Reading the room, building energy, creating flow. Not unlike orchestrating a great release — timing, transitions, knowing when to push and when to pull back.
"The people who build the most interesting software are the ones with the most interesting lives outside of it. Breadth of experience is the secret ingredient in engineering judgment."