~/
richard@zimring:~ $
whoami --verbose
/etc/about.txt

richard_zimring :: software_engineer(ai, sports)

Building Maven at Sportradar — a generative AI platform for sports research used on-air during the 2025 World Series and 2026 Super Bowl.

Previously: crypto-market research at Kellogg, CS at Northwestern.

/etc/currently.yml
building:
agent: architecture · evals · features
platform: ui · rest · mcp · slack
applying: systems engineering
bridging:
- product ↔ design ↔ engineering
- demo ↔ production
richard@zimring:~/writing $
ls -lht posts/
2026-04-27
on-ai-and-believability.mdx Notes from a reunion with my calculus teacher.
6m
-rw-r--r--
richard@zimring:~/projects $
git log --oneline --graph
e4d91a7 ship/gather ios · live
Gather — plan-with-friends app
Syncs Apple, Google, and Outlook calendars to surface availability between friends so you can find mutual free time and make plans in seconds.
+ TypeScript · React Native · Expo · Hono · AWS Lambda · Postgres
a12fc88 ship/heatstrike web · live
Heatstrike — options-chain heatmap
Live, interactive 2D heatmap of option chains — strikes × expirations, coloured by volume, OI, spread, or the Greeks. Nightly Lambda refresh from OCC.
+ TypeScript · React · Vite · visx · Hono · AWS Lambda · DynamoDB
richard@zimring:~ $
cat elsewhere.yml
↗ open
↗ open
→ local
quote-of-the-day.txt

John Sculley got a very serious disease. It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people “here’s this great idea,” then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem with that is that there’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make. Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic.

— Steve Jobs
richard@zimring:~ $
type help ↵