A field note, written mid-stream
Ten years moving goods through global supply chains. Ten years, in parallel, inside consulting rooms solving other people's hardest problems. Ten-plus years, underneath both, volunteering for an NGO because the work mattered more than the title.
Now feels like the right moment to refresh — AI has widened what one person can learn and build, and I want to spend that opportunity deliberately: researching two real programs, staying open, and practicing toward a capability I can actually use by 2030.
Two tributaries, chosen deliberately
Tributary one — governance
Harvard Kennedy School
The policy side: how institutions actually govern environmental and natural-resource decisions — the frameworks that decide what a supply chain, a city, or a watershed is allowed to do.
Tributary two — infrastructure
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
The systems side: how water actually moves through built and natural infrastructure, and what resilience means when the two are designed to fail — or hold — together.
The record so far
AI didn't just change the tools. It changed the timing.
Not a deadline — a destination
A hub built from an open mind, kept honest by continuous learning and practice — where governance thinking and watershed engineering meet the doing I already know how to do.