Owner of Adam Dynamics
Adam Dynamics is a quantitative solutions firm that helps businesses build machine learning and similar quantitative software with lower costs. I started it after helping several businesses build machine learning, embedded, and analytics software. These businesses have ranged from consumer robotics startups to energy companies and marketing firms.
My work has included building embedded computer vision models, forecasting customer energy demands, and detecting inefficiencies in oil pipelines. If you’re looking for someone to help you build similar quantitative software with lower costs, email me at contact@adamdynamics.com.
Writer
In my writing, I write about the computational software I build and explore many different threads within complex systems. To learn more about my writing, checkout my manifesto. If you’d like to get some of my writing sent directly to your email, subscribe to my newsletter.
Traveler
Being born in Kansas, I got curious about the rest of the world. Initially, I thought just moving to one place would be enough. But after looking at my pattern of decisions, it’s clear I just love exploring the world.
I moved to Canada back in 2019, then back to the US for a year in 2021. Then back to Canada the next year. That turned out not being enough, so I traveled across Hungary, Türkiye, Montenegro, Croatia, Portugal, and back to Canada in 2023.
I’m currently back in Canada. But, it’s likely I’ll travel again soon.
Look to the future
The healthiest mind is a forward facing one. I’ve learned early on that efforts of returning to the past rarely give positive outcomes. Often, it’s the result of feeling lost, chasing an unhealthy attachment to nostalgia, or trying to resolve your regrets. It’s what I call mental quicksand. If your past thinking and efforts led you to this hole, then returning to it only digs you deeper, all while the world moves forward without you. Hope in the past only becomes a dark, eternal crusade against ghosts. Further, these crusades often bet your entire past on the future, risking all remaining hope and pride in either.
This becomes even more clear when you realize history becomes increasingly irrational the more neutral and educated you become. The more educated about history you are, the less sense it will make to you. Instead, I’m a firm believer in having all your hope for the future. When you do this, your hope in people, life, and the world becomes a lot more positive. And, ironically, your sense of pride for the past becomes something more healthy irrespective of its sheer irrational details and events. When you have hope for the future, you’re free from an irreconcilable past.
Note: This isn’t a recommendation for historical ignorance. If anything, it’s a strong recommendation for historical knowledge. Historical knowledge may the strongest motivator for abandoning attachments to nostalgia and crusades against ghosts of the past. And so there may also be no better source for genuine hope in the future.