I've always been interested in how things work.

For most of my professional life, that curiosity has taken the form of reliability and mechanical engineering.  Understanding systems, studying how they behave under different conditions, noticing where they break down, and finding ways for them to operate more reliably.

Eventually, that same curiosity turned toward something much more complicated: being human.

That path led me into different personality models (Myers Briggs, Enneagram, etc.), Human Design, Taoism, consciousness, and a much deeper investigation into the mechanics of inner decision making.  What began as something I could study intellectually became an experiment in my own life.  Learning to recognize the difference between decisions that were mine, and decisions that would arise from pressure, fear, urgency, obligation, or the need to figure everything out first.

Over time, I began noticing an interesting connection between the different worlds I had been exploring.

In engineering, reliability isn't about forcing a machine to behave like a different machine.  It's about understanding how a particular system is designed to operate, the conditions it operates within, and what causes it to move away from its design functions.

I've come to think about being human in much the same way.

The reliability of being human and inner decision making means operating reliably as yourself.

That idea sits at the center of the work I'm doing here.

I'm not particularly interested in telling people who they should become, what they should do next, or how they should change their lives.  I'm much more interested in what happens when we understand our own mechanics well enough that we no longer have to manufacture a version of ourselves or seek an outer authority to tell us the next step.

This website is where I explore, share, and ask questions about that.

Sometimes it will be through Human Design, engineering, Taoism, philosophy, consciousness, or something I've noticed in my own experience.  Not everything here will fit into a category, and I feel that's part of the point.

I imagine this space more as a living workshop than a classroom, lecture hall, or seminar.

There are toolkits on tables, ideas taken apart, open notebooks with scribbles and drawings inside, plenty of windows, and anyone is able to join at any part of the process.  I like to call them Field Notes from things I've been observing, and some of that may eventually become coaching programs, courses, podcasts, or something else entirely.

I'm always investigating and learning.

And if you are someone who enjoys understanding how things work, especially the sometimes mystical and ironic universe we live in, you're welcome to pull up a chair.