Pattern Recognition: How Knitting Prepared Me for Engineering and Leadership

February 28, 2026

I used to own a knitting shop. This is perhaps the most unexpected sentence I could write in a piece about technology leadership, so let me explain why it belongs here.

Editorial illustration of knitting needles and yarn beside code and
pattern diagrams, representing the parallel between knitting patterns
and software engineering — precision, structure, and systematic
problem-solving rendered in warm, textured tones.

Posts

The Month Pneumonia Rewrote My Retirement

February 12, 2026

For years, retirement lived in my head as a clean transition. Finish strong, downshift, start traveling with a clear plan and an open calendar. What I did not plan for was pneumonia taking five weeks of the timeline I did not have to spare.

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Walking with an IV pole between hospital imaging areas during pneumonia treatment.

Projects

PlotThing - Story Management and Writing Tool

January 29, 2026

PlotThing is a comprehensive story management and writing application I'm building. It provides writers with tools to organize their creative work and export directly to publishing formats.

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