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Things I care about and have spent real time on — thinking, doing, or feeling — written up to share what I found.
- Pool: the king's lawn, the prisoner's cue, and the accidental birth of plasticJul 11, 2026A history of pool for people learning to love the plateau — how a medieval lawn game moved indoors and kept the grass, why a $10,000 prize for a better billiard ball accidentally started the plastics industry, what the pro game looks like in 2026, and why the Philippines produces magicians. Written because pool is one of my two mastery disciplines.
HistoryPoolMastery - Paraty: the port that gold built, and time forgotJul 2, 2026A short history of Paraty, the colonial port on Brazil's Costa Verde — how Minas Gerais gold made it, how a new road unmade it, why its cobbled streets flood on purpose, and what its four churches quietly say about who lived there. Written to learn the town before walking it.
HistoryTravelBrazil - God is Time: Insights from the Bhagavad GitaJun 12, 2026Time as the divine in the Gita — and how to live without being consumed by it.
EssayPhilosophy - React Native Elements — My Journey through Open SourceMar 24, 2018How React Native Elements went from Nader Dabit's weekend project to 10,000 stars, and how I went from first-time contributor to maintainer along the way.
EngineeringReact NativeOpen Source - MobileSpace — A story about my passionsSep 30, 2017My journey to discovering, learning, and teaching iOS development: from a to-do app in Objective-C to running a free weekend meetup at SF State.
TeachingiOSField note - Testing in React Native — Jest & DetoxSep 8, 2017Writing unit and end-to-end tests to ship a mobile app with confidence: how we tested Pillow Pro, our React Native app, with Jest and Detox on Bitrise in 2017.
EngineeringReact NativeTesting - Bitrise + CodePush + React Native = Ideal Mobile CI Setup?May 12, 2017Continuous integration, testing and automated deployment for a cross-platform React Native app: how we set up Bitrise and CodePush at Pillow in 2017.
EngineeringReact NativeCI - Blockchain technology - What's all the hype about?May 7, 2017Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum explained as I understood them in 2017, and how smart contracts could reshape the ride-sharing economy.
EngineeringBlockchainEssay - This is how I shower.Jan 4, 2014PG-13 (private parts are censored): a theory of how the angle of the shower head decides how my day goes, from a college student who tested it.
EssayHumour - Swimming with Million years old species!Nov 5, 2013A once in a lifetime experience swimming with a Loggerhead Sea Turtle in the Mediterranean sea, while volunteering on Turkey's Iztuzu beach.
TravelTurkeyNature - Eat an egg- you're NOT killing a baby chicken!Aug 10, 2013Eighteen years without an egg, then one afternoon of reading: what I learnt about hens, fertility and the beliefs I had never checked.
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