Hey! So Glad You're Here.
When faced with the task of figuring out my place in this world, I always had little to no solid answer, only, a feeling. The feeling that whatever it was I was "meant to do" had something to do with tools. I got excited about the idea to make things work. Function with a purpose. Of course, I grew up on Lego and Mechano, and after engineering school, I played with more complex toys, however always with the same drive. The drive to make the tools work.
In an early stage, it took the shape of fixing industrial machinery, I had the opportunity to ask a friend to teach me to recondition old automatic lathes and set them up for production in a modern environment. That chapter was great, however, the events took me away from that and pushed me towards quality control and IT. I briefly designed and administered a database for quality control. In hindsight, I reckon that became a major distraction from my development. However, a useful distraction.
In time, the opportunity to do what I love came back and presented itself in different shapes. In one case, as management, while leading After-Sale Department for an industrial equipment company, and later as R&D for a data company. Even if the "tools" are not physical, (management and research) the connection within me remains strong. It is not hard to see how good organization and protocols are like oil into the business of operations, and I appreciate that connection. I actually visualize the organization and the effects as I interact with it. Just like tuning an engine or connecting a lightbulb. For the research case, R&D literally was all about making new tools through an iterative process, and I loved the intimacy with the concepts as I developed it. I believe that understanding the mechanics of things is incredibly empowering. Things being everything.
This brings me to what I do not understand and how I navigate it. That is important because I consistently find myself in this position. Where experience ends, intelligence compensate. Where intelligence/knowledge ends sensible behavior and bayesian strategies compensate. In other words, I try things out. Where possible, iterative improvements are my answer to the unknown.
And this brings me to how I design.
In this blog page, I collected some of my efforts in designing and manufacturing items I had little to no experience with. The resulting crafts are not perfect, and I embrace them for what they are, a collateral of the educational process I put myself into. Nothing's perfect and the journey to improve is long.
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