Professional Focus

I like working on problems that look simple until you try them. Sometimes that means teaching an AI to read research papers and turn them into usable lab protocols. Sometimes it’s scraping ten years of stock prices to find patterns and test what might happen next. Lately, I’ve been building real-time AI guidance for high-stakes conversations, like asking for a raise or buying a car, to make those moments less stressful and more informed.

Hobbies

Football and Barcelona

Football was never something I played seriously, but watching it is a different story. I almost never miss a Barca game. Over time I started noticing things that are easy to miss. The winger holding width to pin a fullback in place. The pivot receiving on the half turn so he is already facing forward. The third man run that opens everything up after ten minutes of patient build-up.

Following Barcelona also means sitting through the lows. The 6-1 comeback against PSG in 2017, after losing the first leg 4-0. The 8-2 to Bayern Munich in Lisbon in 2020. Watching Messi’s exit get announced in 2021. Through all of it the club’s identity stays the same. La Masia players, patient football, trusting the ball more than running away from pressure.

Game of Thrones

The spectacle is fine, but it is not what kept me watching. The part that actually pulls me in is how the biggest moments trace back to one quiet decision made earlier. Littlefinger poisoning Jon Arryn and framing the Lannisters is technically what started the entire war. That is never the scene people bring up.

The book versus show difference I keep coming back to is the Night King. In the show he leads the White Walkers. In the books the Night’s King is a figure from Old Nan’s stories who made sacrifices to the Others, not their leader but their follower. That one detail changes what the whole threat actually means.

Calisthenics

I picked up calisthenics in December, training at home with parallettes and some resistance bands. Nothing structured, just getting started. The first time I tried proper push-ups, I could not get through three.

From there I started logging every session on Hevy, filled the gaps with YouTube, and just kept going. Three months in, I can do pseudo planche push-ups, archer push-ups, pike push-ups, and a one-leg assisted L-sit.

The one that meant the most is the archer push-up. It is the first move where one arm carries almost all the weight and you cannot fake your way through it. The goal from here is a full planche, with a handstand push-up somewhere in between. But the skill is not really the point anymore. Just showing up every day is.