What I’m learning
This page reflects what I am actively learning right now.
What It Is
Teaching is the practice of helping others acquire knowledge or skills. 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/Teaching
What I’m thinking about
This page is a place for the ideas that are actively occupying my attention.
Community, Education, and Ecosystem
Projects building communities, educational programs, and ecosystem initiatives.
Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC): the student-run incubator that seeded everything
How a student-run LLC at Missouri S&T became my first real operating system for shipping interdisciplinary work — years before Lumate.
Breaking Down the AI Agent Term
A practical framework for decomposing the term "AI agent" into twelve distinct dimensions so vague conversations about agentic systems can become precise ones.
What Drives Me (and how to work with me)
The four drives underneath my work, the operating philosophy that shapes my decisions, and the practical rules for collaborating with me well.
Prototype, Document, Teach
Why the most durable way to transfer understanding is often to build something concrete, explain it clearly, and train others to own it.
Capital Innovators — Startup Accelerator Participation
Participated in a 6-month startup accelerator in St. Louis as CEO/Founder of Lumate, refining business model and go-to-market strategy with mentorship from...
Computer Vision & Control Model for Robot (NI Vision + LabVIEW)
A vision-based robot control system using National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW — the robot sees, decides, and acts — with lessons that transferred directly to later data pipeline and real-time processing work.
FIRST Robotics FRC VPN for On-Device Testing
Built a VPN system for remote programming and testing of actual FRC RoboRIO hardware — not a simulator — and learned as much about networking latency as robotics in the process.