Make the idea touchable.
Shipping changes the question. A working object teaches more than another week of private planning.
ABOUT / THE PERSON BEHIND THE SCRAPS
Hello, I’m
Tam.
Engineer. Writer. Restless collector of useful ideas.
a face, roughly remembered
I’m a machine learning engineer working on search and AI in the Bay Area.
I care about tools that help people think, software that earns trust, and writing that admits when the answer is still moving. Most of my projects begin as a small annoyance I cannot stop turning over.
This site is my memory shelf. It holds essays, experiments, and a public record of what has my attention.
Find out what I think.
Writing slows a thought down enough to inspect it, remove the borrowed parts, and keep what is true.
Leave a trail back.
A personal archive is less about storage than recognition: seeing an old question and knowing why it mattered.
One thing at a time.
Attention is a material. Spread too thin, it makes nothing. Given enough time, it becomes a body of work.