I care about solving hard problems cleanly: no ornament, no excess. My work centers on headless wargaming systems, agentic frameworks, and safety at scale. At root, it is a revolt against maximalist hand-waving.
What I believe
Even the hardest problems in the world should be explainable to a child. When they are not, the problem is often not depth but theater: complexity used to protect ego, obscure weak thinking, or defend territory. Hand-waving is dangerous, and in an age of gas-town optimists, it is everywhere. We should own outcomes. Intention means very little.
How I work
A colleague once compared me to a honeybee. I work long hours, move ideas between people and teams, and believe a well-designed structure can carry enormous complexity.
I usually think hard before I build, often before anything is written down. Whenever possible, I try to touch the problem directly, most often through customer engagement, because reality clarifies what abstraction hides. Once I have the shape of the thing, I move quickly. I would rather fail early than protect a bad idea with polish.