Competitive paddling
Dragon Boat
- 500m erg
- 2:17
- 5k erg
- 18:50
- Seat
- Engine
- Trains as an engine seat, the position responsible for sustained power output through the middle of the boat.
- Working toward a sub-2:00 500m split by May 2027, with training programmed against stroke-rate targets for sprint, race, and head-race distances.
Structured training is a measurement problem before it is a fitness problem. Programming against stroke-rate bands and split targets is the same discipline as instrumenting a system: decide what to measure, hold the protocol steady, and let the numbers say whether the change worked.
Design for manufacture
Fabrication and CAD
- Primary CAD
- SolidWorks
- Process
- FDM
- Shop
- UCLA Makerspace
- Designs rigid parametric parts in SolidWorks with explicit tolerancing, and prints them FDM at the UCLA Makerspace.
- Reverse-engineers existing hardware with digital calipers to model mating parts against measured, rather than assumed, dimensions.
Designing a part that has to physically fit another part is unforgiving in a way software rarely is: a tolerance error is not a failing test, it is a printed object in the bin. It is the fastest feedback loop available for learning to specify something precisely before committing to it.
Formulas, by weight
Precision Baking
- Measurement
- By weight
- Techniques
- Sous-vide, fermentation
- Built from it
- Proof
- Cooks and bakes to gram-accurate formulas rather than volume measures, treating a recipe as a parameterised process to be versioned and iterated.
- Working through sous-vide, fermentation, and other technique-led methods where the controlled variable is time and temperature rather than ingredients.
Proof exists because of this. Keeping formulas by weight across dozens of iterations is a version-control problem wearing an apron, and the recipe PWA is the direct result of wanting real diffs between one bake and the next.
