Pursuits
The things that sustain a person outside of the work. Collected over a lifetime of compounding curiosity.
Skydiving
More than ten thousand jumps over decades of practice. Not a weekend hobby but a defining discipline — one that teaches decision-making under pressure, systems thinking in real time, and the irreducible importance of checklists.
Martial Arts
Training since childhood. The discipline of martial arts — patience, precision, controlled intensity — maps directly onto the practice of building complex systems.
Motorcycling
The motorcycle as thinking machine. Long-distance riding creates the kind of sustained, focused attention that is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
Woodworking
Building tangible things from raw material. Woodworking is the antidote to the abstraction of software — you cannot refactor a dovetail joint.
Horology
The study and appreciation of mechanical timekeeping. Watches as micro-architecture: complex systems in constrained spaces, where every component serves a purpose.
DJing & Music
Music as a practice of pattern recognition, timing, and reading a room. DJing is real-time systems integration — blending inputs into a coherent output under live constraints.
Continuous Learning
The through-line across all pursuits: sustained, deliberate engagement with difficult skills over long time horizons. Mastery as process, not destination.
“Every serious hobby teaches the same lesson: mastery is the compound interest of consistent, deliberate practice.”
The common thread across skydiving, martial arts, motorcycling, woodworking, horology, and music is not thrill-seeking. It is the opposite: each demands precision under constraints. These are practices of attention. Software architecture is another such practice.
Photos, stories, and deeper notes on each pursuit are being assembled as the site rebuild continues. For now, these fragments will have to do.