A quiet habit of
taking things apart.

I’ve always been curious about how things work.

When I was younger, that usually meant taking apart whatever happened to be lying around the house. Radios, cameras, random gadgets. Putting them back together was a separate problem. There were usually a few screws left over.

I suppose the habit stuck.

These days, I do the same thing with pretty much everything I find interesting. A film scene, a piece of software, a good piece of writing, a strange idea. I have a hard time looking at something and leaving it alone. I want to know why it works.

Sometimes that means rewinding the same scene three or four times because I noticed something about the editing. Sometimes it means opening a website and wondering why one tiny interaction feels so satisfying. And sometimes a five-minute question turns into a completely unnecessary three-hour rabbit hole.

I’ve gotten used to it.

At some point, that curiosity naturally turned into making things. I like starting with very little and slowly figuring out what something could become. These days, I spend a lot of my time making things, especially SaaS products and other little ideas that seem worth building.

The process is usually messy. A lot of things don’t work. Some ideas probably should have stayed in my head. But there’s something I really enjoy about taking an idea from “this could be interesting” to something that actually exists.

When I’m not doing that, there’s a good chance I’m watching something. Movies, anime, shows, whatever happens to catch my attention. I’m a bit of a cinephile, which mostly means I will happily spend far too long thinking about a two-minute scene that everyone else has already forgotten.

I don’t have a particularly grand philosophy behind any of this.

I like being curious. I like making things. I like noticing small details. And I like having enough room in my life to follow an interesting thought when one shows up.

So, I suppose this little corner of the internet is where I keep some of that.