My work sits at the intersection of technology, behavior, and organizational systems. I’m interested in how fast-moving environments shape human decision-making—what people pay attention to, what gets rewarded, and what quietly gets overlooked as systems scale.

Having spent years working alongside technical teams in complex, high-performance settings, I’ve seen how productivity tools and metrics influence culture just as much as leadership intent. My perspective is informed by both practical experience and ongoing study in organizational behavior, with a focus on motivation, recognition, and sustainability in modern work.

This talk reflects a long-standing interest in how communities—whether corporate or open source—can design systems that support people as effectively as they support output.

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Try To Teach a Goldfish to Bark

We hire technical talent for depth, focus, and problem-solving—and then quietly reward something else: visibility, narrative, and social signaling. When expectations shift without being named, smart people don’t fail loudly; they overwork, self-doubt, and eventually burn out.

Using the metaphor of trying to teach a goldfish to bark, this talk reframes performance struggles as system design failures rather than personal shortcomings. Drawing from Industrial-Organizational Psychology and real-world tech environments, the session explores how impressions really form, why inner critics are often internalized system errors, and how to navigate “barking” systems without losing the ability to swim.

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