There's a thing that happens when you've been a leader long enough: your professional surface area becomes very smooth. Decks are tidy. Bios are calibrated. The mess that produced the work is mostly edited out of the story.
I wanted this site to do the opposite — at least in one corner of it. The projects page is the part where I'm allowing myself to publish things that aren't finished, aren't necessarily impressive, and sometimes don't work. Not because rough is fashionable, but because the act of working in public, even quietly, is the thing that keeps my thinking honest.
I don't think this corner of the internet needs another essay about AI. But I do think more senior people should be visibly tinkering — not because the tinkering produces important software, but because the tinkering produces real opinions. The opinions I trust most in my field come from people whose hands are still on the materials.
So that's what this is. A polite professional bio in one corner, a messy bench in the other. The whole point is that the bench is visible.