A personal space for reflections on AI, travel, coffee, and real-life connection.
I write about the ideas shaping how AI enters real businesses, the articles that make me think, and the places that change how I see work, culture, and technology. This page brings together my AI notes, LinkedIn essays, and travel reflections from Japan, Korea, Switzerland, and beyond.
I recently spoke with a software developer at a fintech company who told me that a surprisingly large part of her work revolves around KPIs. She estimated it was more than half her time.
It made me think about a gap I often see when looking at production workflows through a Lean Six Sigma lens: many smaller manufacturers don’t track their operations with the same discipline that software companies do.
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I had roughly 62 conversations at Startupfest this year. I tried to keep count, which already tells you how unusual that is for me: I’m an introvert.
I wasn’t particularly interested in collecting pitches. I wanted to understand how people arrived at what they were building.
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AWS putting $1B behind Forward Deployed Engineering says something important about where enterprise AI is going.
The idea itself is not new. Palantir has used forward-deployed engineers for years, and companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have been moving in a similar direction.