Started training at age five. Never stopped. Multiple disciplines across multiple decades. The discipline and mental clarity carry over into everything — especially debugging production at 3 AM.
Over ten thousand jumps. Not a typo. The kind of number that makes insurance adjusters nervous. Freefall teaches you that preparation beats bravery, checklists save lives, and gravity doesn't care about your feelings.
The motorcycle is the debugger of the mind. Nothing clears a stuck problem like 200 miles of open road and engine noise. Long rides, back roads, the kind of thing that reminds you the world extends beyond your monitor.
Software is ethereal. Wood is not. There's something deeply satisfying about building things that exist in three dimensions and don't need a deployment pipeline. Measure twice, cut once — the original code review.
The study and collection of timepieces. Mechanical watches are the original microprocessors — hundreds of components working in concert at microscopic tolerances. Appreciating the engineering of things that keep time without batteries or WiFi.
Mixing tracks is just real-time data processing with better speakers. Reading a room, matching tempos, building energy — it's event-driven architecture for your ears. Also: vinyl sounds better. This is not debatable.