Welcome to my blog section, where I share in-depth articles, technical insights, and perspectives on various topics in technology, software engineering, AI, and innovation. These are explorations of ideas, technical deep-dives, and experiences from my journey in the tech world.
Deeply Personal Current: Human Grade Pet Food Comfort Food for the Soul All Posts Cats and Empathy The Truth About ‘Human Grade’ Pet Food: Marketing vs. Nutrition Ace, our 3-year-old gray-and-white domestic shorthair, is pickier than most Michelin-star food critics. He weighs approximately 5 kilograms, has strong opinions about kibble texture, and has rejected more brands of cat food than I can count. ...
Brain Series Current: Stress and Cognition Social Connection All Posts Brain Training for Your 20s A little stress sharpens your mind. Chronic stress destroys it. ...
Walter White cooks meth and poisons a child. Amy Dunne frames her husband for murder with sociopathic precision. Jordan Belfort defrauds thousands and revels in his own depravity. And we can’t stop watching. This is the paradox of the unsympathetic protagonist: characters who violate our moral codes yet remain narratively compelling. They shouldn’t work-but in the right hands, they become cultural phenomena. The question isn’t whether you should write unlikeable protagonists. It’s how to make them watchable without sacrificing moral complexity. ...
Deeply Personal Current: Comfort Food for the Soul Pawns & Paws All Posts Next Comfort Food for the Soul: What We Eat When We Win (And When We Lose) In our home in Finland, food is not just sustenance-it’s our primary love language, our apology mechanism, and our celebration protocol. My wife and I have an unspoken rule: when words fail, we cook. ...
You have 37,482 unread emails. 14,000 photos on your phone (5,000 screenshots you’ll never look at again). A Downloads folder with 2,000 files dating back to 2014. 42 browser tabs open right now. 7 note-taking apps, each with hundreds of notes you’ll never revisit. You tell yourself: “I might need this someday.” You never do. But you can’t delete it. Welcome to digital hoarding-the modern epidemic of keeping everything and finding nothing. ...
Brain Series Current: Social Connection Meditation for Skeptics All Posts Stress and Cognition Loneliness is as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes per day. ...
Brain Series Current: Meditation for Skeptics Digital Detox All Posts Social Connection “Meditation is for hippies. I don’t have time to sit cross-legged chanting ‘om’ for an hour.” ...
In 2009, Air France Flight 447 was cruising at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. The Airbus A330 was one of the most automated aircraft ever built. The pilots barely needed to fly it-automation handled almost everything. Then the airspeed sensors iced over. The autopilot disengaged. Control handed to the pilots. And in the next four minutes, three highly trained pilots flew a perfectly functional aircraft into the ocean, killing all 228 people aboard. ...
Brain Series Current: Digital Detox Morning Routines All Posts Meditation for Skeptics The average person checks their phone 96 times per day-once every 10 minutes while awake. ...
Deeply Personal Current: Pawns & Paws Previous All Posts Comfort Food for the Soul Pawns & Paws: 5 Board Games You Can Actually Play ‘With’ Your Cat My wife and I share two great loves: board games and our cat, Ace. One rainy Saturday in Finland, as we stared at our shelf of games and our 3-year-old gray-and-white domestic shorthair staring back, we had a thought that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time: ...