Hi, I'm Christopher.

When I was about ten years old, I learned enough QBasic to write a program that would count to infinity. I was pretty pleased with myself, until I realized I didn’t know how to stop it. I ended up turning off the computer.

Around the same time, I discovered email. I remember being fascinated that I could send a message to a friend through the computer. Then I discovered attachments, and of course I had to try that too. I also remember my dad being less enthusiastic about the bill that followed.

I guess I’ve always been curious about how things work. And when I learn something new, I usually want to try it out, change something, and see what happens.

My interests have taken me in all sorts of directions. I’ve tinkered with blacksmithing and woodworking, tried my hand at gardening and making paper from scraps, and spent a fair amount of time experimenting in the kitchen. I especially enjoy the idea of taking something from its basic ingredients or components and making something new.

I also really enjoy a well-designed spreadsheet. Which might seem like an odd thing to mention alongside blacksmithing and baking, but I find them satisfying for different reasons.

Sometimes the process is the point, and sometimes the process is the obstacle.

I love finding ways to simplify repetitive tasks, organize information, and make things work more reliably. But when I’m making something creative or trying something new, I enjoy the process itself. I don’t necessarily want the result to look exactly like everything else.

My professional life has taken a few unexpected turns, too. When I was fifteen, my dad encouraged me to apply for a job at the local Ace Hardware. I didn’t get hired, so I started mowing lawns. That turned into a business I operated for seventeen years.

Since then, I’ve worked in real estate investing, renovation, and project management, among other things. I’ve enjoyed the variety, the challenges, and the opportunities to build something or improve how things get done. I’m not sure I’d enjoy doing exactly the same thing every day, even if I’d developed a really good system for doing it.

I’m also a husband, a dad, and a Christian. My faith is an important part of how I understand my life and the world around me, even if I don’t always do a particularly good job of keeping everything in the right perspective. I’m grateful for God’s grace, and still learning what it means to live in light of it.

Lately, I’ve been having a lot of fun exploring what AI and other technology make possible. I’m building things I wouldn’t have known how to begin just a few years ago, and learning quite a bit in the process. I learn best by doing, and these tools have made it much easier to jump in and try something.

That’s part of why I decided to build this website.

I’ve had ideas for things I’d like to write about, projects I’d like to share, and experiments that don’t really fit anywhere else. This seemed like a good place to put them. And building the website is another opportunity to learn something new.

I don’t know exactly what this site will become. Over time, I expect it will include some of the things I’m building, books I’ve enjoyed, ideas I’m exploring, and probably a few things that don’t fit neatly into any particular category.

For now, it’s a place to start.

I hope you’ll find something interesting, maybe something useful, or perhaps something that makes you curious enough to try something yourself.

And if something here makes you think we’d enjoy a conversation, I’d be glad to hear from you.