"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." — Leonardo da Vinci

People look without seeing. Observation is a muscle most people never learn to develop. It came somewhat naturally to me. My art practice taught me to hone it.

To break assumptions on the fundamental nature of things, ideas, and systems. To abstract the complex into the essential.

This is the foundation of building things that matter.

You can't improve what you don't understand. You can't solve what you haven't truly observed. Most people approach problems with bias already baked in. Assumptions masquerading as insight.

Creation cuts through that. The act of making reveals what you actually know. Theory is untested. Building is the test.

I've always been drawn to mastery, not as a destination, but as a way of moving through the world.

Mastery is observation refined through repetition. Seeing and experiencing more clearly each time.

Da Vinci also said, "Experience is a truer guide than the words of others." Everything I know confirms this. Most of it came the hard way. The hours, the failures, the hard won lessons.

I didn't have a roadmap. I built my own. The struggle taught me something: mastery will always be hard, but the right conditions can make it less brutal.

That's why I care about building environments where growth becomes inevitable. Craft in service of impact.