Finance · Web · Systems
Curiosity in mind.
Beauty in work.
Finance professional by day, tinkerer and web person by night. A living notebook of things I'm exploring — from financial systems to the quiet craft of the web.
Human · Generalist
Curiosity in mind.
Beauty in work.
Finance professional by day; tinkerer and web person by night. This space is a living notebook of things I'm exploring — from financial systems to the quiet craft of the web.
Team Lead
Acme Partners
Equity Research Analyst
Global Insights
Founder
@lifeatcol
Clean, performant, and accessible experiments and sites built with a focus on craft.
Numbers, workflows, and frameworks exploring the intersection of value and logic.
Small systems that reduce manual effort and scale nicely without unnecessary complexity.
Notebook
There's a patience to good analysis. The numbers are rarely the story — the notes in the margin, the footnotes, the silences between the lines.
Read →Every few months I strip a project back to bare HTML and am surprised by how little I actually needed. The constraint is the design.
Read →The best automations free your attention for the things that actually require it. But the temptation is always to automate the interesting parts too.
Read →A spreadsheet is not just a tool — it's an argument. The way data is arranged reveals assumptions about what matters, what connects, and what can be ignored.
Read →The terminal value assumption accounts for most of a model's output and is the part we know least about. That's not a flaw — it's the honest shape of uncertainty.
Read →Choosing type carefully is saying: I considered how you'd read this. Line height, measure, weight — each is a small act of care for whoever sits on the other side.
Read →Following a rule and understanding why the rule exists are two very different things. The second is rarer and more useful — especially when the rule is wrong.
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