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Notes on engineering, AI, and robotics, plus the occasional lesson that crosses over from sixteen years of coaching.

Teaching a character who to notice

Most digital characters broadcast at everyone. This one picks the single person most open to a moment, opens on something specific about them, and can explain why.

How efficient multimodal systems handle many streams at once

A study of how the best efficient multimodal systems, from Perceiver to MobileVLM, fuse vision, audio, and more without melting an edge device. They all shrink the token budget, but each does it in a different place.

What 16 years of coaching taught me about system design

The best systems and the best teams start the same way: get clear on the constraints before anyone touches the solution.

Building a RAG system in a restricted corporate environment

Air-gapped networks, strict governance, no external APIs. Building retrieval that works inside a corporate boundary takes a different playbook.