Welcome to my central hub. This is where I share my personal writings and curate resources for my students practicing Qigong, Tai Chi, and the Science of Stretching (SoS).
📱 Student Practice Hubs
Select a portal below to access curated sequences, homework guides, and video references for your home practice. These pages are optimized for mobile phones—perfect for scanning via QR codes!
Qigong Practice
A comprehensive sequence of flows to cultivate balance, structural alignment, and stress reduction.
Enter Qigong →Tai Chi & Bagua
Traditional forms, martial applications, and deep internal work to build somatic coordination.
Enter Tai Chi →Science of Stretching
Targeted deep flexibility routines focusing on happy joints, hips, shoulders, and long-hold release.
Enter Stretching →🎥 YouTube Practice Channel
I regularly upload free, short-form instructional videos and full-length sequences on my YouTube channel.
✍️ Recent Writing & Musings
I write about somatic calibration, metabolic health, intentional habits, and personal epiphanies. Here are my latest posts:
Two Voices, Two Different FabricationsDraft
I gave one model the same outline twice, changing exactly one paragraph of the prompt. It produced two posts with different voices — and different fabrications. Where the two drafts disagreed turned out to be where the model was making things up, which makes a paired draft a cheap fact-checking instrument.
The Shutdown Tail: 27 Seconds Your Spring Test Report Doesn't ShowDraft
Reactor Netty waits out a two-second quiet period when it disposes its event loops, and Spring pays it once per cached application context, serially, in the shutdown hook — after your last test has already passed. Two lines of test configuration remove it.
Opportunistic Optimization: Shaving Five Minutes Off the Loop While Waiting on CI
How sneaking in side-branch experiments with an LLM during pipeline queues dropped test execution from six minutes to 58 seconds—and turned an urgent QAT defect into a casual afternoon non-event.
