Things I'm building and pondering, from St. Petersburg, Florida.
Sixteen things in the workshop ↓The workshop
Each time I stop work on something, I leave myself a note on where things stand. The sky is drawn from them, and these are their public lines.
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How to read the sky
- Green and moving: warm.Bright and moving: warm.
- Faint and still: resting.
- Hover a project to read about it.
Abstract
Curious, yet practical.
I'm a fervent seeker of truth, but I'm just as deeply drawn to figuring out what works. (I'm of a practical nature.) Occasionally, there is a tension between my love of the abstract and my pull towards the concrete, but I find it makes me a better problem solver. I'd like to think (and have been told) it also makes me an effective communicator.
A bit about me:
- i.I'm a college-educated high school dropout with an unquenchable thirst for learning about the world.
- ii.I was formerly in a Forward-Deployed Engineer–resembling role before leaving the workforce to raise and home-school my now 4.5-year-old son.
- iii.I spent a couple of years living on a sailing catamaran and traveling the Caribbean with my husband, son, and our two cats; the lessons I learned as a sailor in a storm profoundly transformed my ability to cope with stressful situations, to see those situations as, yes, grueling, but also life-changing opportunities to expand my comfort zone.
- iv.I currently live in St. Petersburg, Florida, where I'm living my dream of suburban homesteading. I'm growing a lot of fruit trees (mango, papaya, and guava are some of my favorites), a vegetable garden, and building my collection of native plants.
- v.I love working on personal projects or intellectual pursuits in my spare time. You can peruse some of my projects here. 🙂
Earlier work
Case studies
Finished projects, written up in full with their charts and methods. One line each here.
- IProperty risk
St. Pete Property-Risk Analysis
FindingThe market's flood discount is about 3× too small. - IIKnowledge layer
Noeron
MethodEach claim heard in an episode is traced to the papers that support it, or flagged. - IIIRegional economy
Tampa Bay Labor Market
FindingIt isn't a tech town. Computer and math work ranks 12th of 22. - IVResearch engine
Morphic
MethodRead the corpus once, keep the structure, send it to whoever can use it. - VAgentic analysis
Sea Level at St. Petersburg
FindingZero extreme months in 63 years, then 57 in 16.
Five of six on file
View all projects →References
Selected writing
- [1]The Case for Quantum BioelectricityHow decentralized science can propel emerging fields · 2026
- [2]The DeSci SolutionMoving beyond the limitations of traditional science · 2026
More writing
All posts on Substack ↗Correspondence
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Observed from St. Petersburg, FL
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