"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 develop, and when you do, it changes everything.

You start breaking assumptions about the fundamental nature of things, ideas, and systems. Abstracting the complex, into the essential.

I learned this through making things with my hands before I ever touched a screen.

Years of painting taught me that you don't really see a subject until you've tried to render it.

You think you know what a shadow looks like until the brush proves you wrong.

That humility, the gap between what you assume and what's actually there, followed me from the canvas to product work. It turns out the same principle applies everywhere.

You can't improve what you don't understand.
You can't solve what you haven't truly observed, and 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.Observe, build, learn. Each repetition sharpens the seeing.

‍You never finish learning how to see. But every cycle builds something that's hard to shortcut. The kind of judgment and taste that only comes from years of making things, breaking assumptions, and paying attention to what survives.