Words and Phrases I like

morning bagel "In order that we can secure our morning bagel." "Mornin' bagel."
vector of silence used in processing white noise through a digital filter?

building codes, genetic codes, computer codes -AI

codes set the groundwork for the patterns of life that emerge in human communities.

tweaks to this code can have beneficial or adverses affect on the lives of people in the community as well as other factors in the environment and other communities.

For the enjoyment it give me from finding relationships, I find it interesting to compare the field of urban planning with my professional field of experience design. Working as an experience designer with programming knowledge I am fully aware of the implications of my somewhat abstract task of tweaking the code of a system (AI and other) in order to obtain desirable results. To create and maintain a worthwhile and enjoyable experience, one must have advanced knowledge of the system on is working with as well as empathy for the people and other environmental elements who will experience (live with) the results.

In order for this to be achieved, I believe it is of utmost importance to have a strong idea of your and the communities' values and intentions and to have the tenacity of mind to not compromise them throughout the development phase. If you do, yes, you have built something, but without a heart.

As I get older I am becoming increasingly more interested in vesting my time discovering real solutions for real problems in a collaborative way.

The perspective I have garnered from living abroad in Japan has also made real for me a sense of community and the desire to help create and maintain this in my home country and hometown.