It meant I couldn't separate strategy from execution: I had to understand client needs, business constraints, and creative expression all at once, then deliver meaningful work made with real craft and care.
It taught me that the best solutions come when you understand why it matters to the people who'll use what you make, and how to execute it in a way that enables everyone to thrive.
...you'll find me painting sci-fi scenes with anthropomorphic characters—because someone has to take talking dogs and spaceships with teeth dead-seriously—or figuring out how to make VRChat worlds that don't murder people's frame rates.
My sci-fi worldbuilding project, Light Era.
How to budget for and build a desktop PC.
The time I remixed a friend's hip-hop song to have a Chinese orchestra backing.
The things I've built in Cities Skylines.
When I got onto national news for writing horror tweets about Canada.
Speed Racer (2008)
All the different ways planet Venus will kill you.
Why I only own one lens (and it's not because I rent).