I spent a decade in the alcohol beverage industry working across operations, new product development, supply chain, and finance. The work I liked best was always building things: a forecasting model, a production tracking system, a better way to connect what the numbers said to what was actually happening on the floor.
That instinct eventually pointed me toward an MBA and, less predictably, toward teaching myself to code. I started with small projects and kept going. The two tracks feed each other in ways I didn't expect. Thinking in systems carries over. So does the habit of working backward from a broken output to find the real problem.
This site has been quiet for a couple of years, and this is the re-introduction. It's where I write about what I'm learning now: SQL, web development, how finance thinking and software thinking overlap. Some posts are technical walkthroughs. Some are observations I haven't seen written up elsewhere. I write them partly to share, but mostly because writing forces me to find out what I actually understand versus what I just think I understand.
If you're somewhere in a similar transition, or just like reading about how things work, I think you'll find something here worth your time.
— Lo