A life interrupted, examined, and still moving forward.
Journal
Long-form notes from the expedition: medicine, uncertainty, science, fear, optimism, and whatever else seems worth recording.
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Why Expedition 31?
I wanted somewhere to document what is happening without letting the diagnosis become the whole story. Part journal, part lab notebook, part record of an expedition I never planned to take.
Living with an error bar
Physicists get comfortable with uncertainty on paper. It feels rather different when the parameter is your own future.
↗Going into founder mode on cancer
What happens when a scientific instinct for reading, testing, and questioning is pointed at the disease itself?
↗The rest of the world did not stop
Physics, friends, bad jokes, little projects, meals, walks, and all of the ordinary things that remain worth wanting.
↗Timeline
A chronological record of the major medical and personal milestones. Less narrative, more map: what happened, when, and what came next.
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Before
Life before cancer entered the vocabulary.
Symptoms
The first signs that something had changed.
Diagnosis
A new set of facts, questions, and decisions.
Staging
Defining the terrain and confronting uncertainty.
Treatment
The expedition becomes active rather than theoretical.
Underway
Still collecting data. Still moving.
Other Projects
Cancer may be the reason this site exists, but it does not get every page. This is the rest: physics, making things, code, and whatever I get curious about next.
Browse projects
Moiré materials
Experiments, notes, figures, and small explanations from my work on strange electronic phases in two-dimensional materials.
↗Physical things
3D prints, moiré objects, scientific toys, and the occasional idea that becomes more interesting once it exists on a desk.
↗Tools
Small pieces of software for looking at data, automating measurements, and making complicated things easier to see.
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