I worked as a software engineer
until I realized I was
running on empty.
"America is sick. 75% of healthcare expenditures are spent on chronic conditions. Western medicine treats these ailments like a general wages war—kill the virus, delete bad tissues, tune parameters."
I was chronically fatigued and burnt out. Conventional medicine had nothing for me besides "get more sleep" and "try reducing stress."
Then I found **Traditional Chinese Medicine**. Not the watered-down Western wellness version. The real thing—pattern diagnosis, herbal formulas precisely matched to my constitution, food as medicine.
Within weeks, I felt a vitality and life force I didn't know was possible.
The Shift
I became obsessed. I spent 5 years studying TCM. I read the classical texts. I helped 250 people build personalized protocols. I saw the same thing over and over: **when you get the pattern diagnosis right, the results are profound.**
I started building AI pattern diagnosis systems over three years ago—before AI was even multimodal. I've been iterating on this longer than almost anyone.
The Problem
Eastern medicine gardens the body. It does not wage war upon its enemies. Any chronic health condition, according to TCM, never has one treatment. It could be a result of any myriad of patterns of disharmony.
"Research that omits pattern diagnosis is inherently useless."
The Han family contiguous records date back nearly to the time of ancient Egypt. I believe that the Chinese, some of the most intelligent people on earth, probably were not hallucinating for 5,000 years.
The Proving Ground.
I moved to **Ubud, Bali** to go all-in on Centered Health. I am living simply while I prove that this works. I started with infant eczema because it is visible, measurable, and heartbreakingly neglected by steroids.