Flight

It was my grandma's idea. And from there on out I kept going.

The appeal is simple: you can just go, whenever and wherever. It's a separate thing from my engineering work — which is part of why I like it.

The view from up there is hard to beat. Clear air, the world laid out below you — it's a good place to think.

What it has changed about how I work: checklists. The process of getting there requires your full attention in a way that most things don't, and aviation is built around the idea that memory alone isn't reliable enough for anything that matters. You write it down and follow the list. I use the same logic on hardware integration and launch operations now.