Personal Data and Finance
Applying data engineering and systems thinking to personal life — automated financial infrastructure, multi-entity accounting, and the quantified self.
What It Is
Accounting is the process of recording, analyzing, and reporting financial transactions to support decision-making and compliance. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.
Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting
Quantified Self
The quantified self interests me as a way of observing patterns in a life that would otherwise blur together.
Mint Finance Organization
Built personal data infrastructure years before that was a phrase — automated transaction imports across all accounts, evolving through Mint, Monarch, QuickBooks, Fivetran, and Postgres after the 2024 sunset.