Hobbies

Puzzles, music, words and chess

What I do when I'm not building systems. Five things, each with its own page.

Corner-on, a cube is a hexagon. A few dimensions up, it's a wormhole.

Rubik's cube

A cube at 11, four hours to the first solve, a week to three minutes, then real algorithms and four official competitions in 2014.

Guitar taught by ear, songs worked out from memory on the spot, and singing as the one still in progress. Two songs on video.

The company blog, a news story, a novel I decided not to publish, two pieces of fiction here in full, and the poems.

100 classics in 2024: Don Quixote, Les Misérables, all of Hemingway, some Plato. Les Misérables won.

1700 on chess.com in about nine months, by playing and by watching Ben Finegold on YouTube.

The thread through all of it: work something out from first principles, then keep going until it's fast.