About
Welcome to The Data Miller. My notes on technology, systems, human judgement, and other topics in a knowledge graph.
Hello World to Now
I wrote my first “Hello World” at age 10, built my first computer at 15, and quickly discovered that my real interest was not just technology but helping people use it well.
As a technologist, I have worked across education, healthcare, transportation, and technology services, supporting organizations more than a century old as well as early stage startups. I have operated through boom and bust cycles from founding and growth to acquisition and Chapter 11. Each phase sharpened how I think about judgment, complex systems, and disciplined execution.
I am a lifelong student and teacher. This space is where I share what I am learning and what experience has taught me.
Philosophy
- Technology in the service of human judgement.
How I Think
I believe technology is never neutral—it always encodes assumptions about people, power, and responsibility.
I’m interested less in what systems can do, and more in what they ask humans to become in order to use them well.
I value rigor over novelty, judgment over automation, and systems thinking over isolated optimizations. When things fail, I look first to incentives, feedback loops, and context—not individual mistakes.
I’m skeptical of technological inevitability. Most outcomes are choices, whether we acknowledge them or not.
My work sits between theory and practice. I build, study, and test systems in real environments, where ambiguity, constraint, and consequence are unavoidable.
I write to clarify—not to persuade, market, or provoke. If an idea survives careful examination, it doesn’t need hype.
Technology should expand human agency, not quietly replace it.