Coming soon

Some of you are probably wondering what a page entitled “Hindsight Unlimited” could possibly be about, so maybe an introduction and explanation is in order.

I’m a machinist, tooling designer, and sometimes interpreter between mechanics and engineers. I lead a team of other similarly-skilled individuals that work within a larger team of engineers to develop new repairs for aircraft engine components. I’ve been a (mostly non-practicing) private pilot for almost 40 years. I’m a racing fan and former short track racer. I’ve been working on things and attempting to fix things for most of my life. It is what I do. This site will undoubtedly end up touching on any of those topics and who knows what else.

The title “Hindsight Unlimited” stems from a short track racing team my neighbor and I had called “Hindsight Racing”. We realized early on that we never seemed to do anything right the first time but we always seemed to be able to make it better. Eventually. At some point I finally understood that the same sort of process seems to flow into just about everything I’ve ever been involved in. I may not get it exactly right the first time, but I’ll keep going until I make it better. I actually believe that most of the things we consider to be innovation actually stem from someone, somewhere, simply not getting it right the first time.

Another topic that will undoubtedly come up as I explore the thoughts from my tiny-little-mind, as told through my fingers into the keyboard, is losing my oldest son to an accident on Friday, September 18th, 2020. The phone call that evening rocked my reality in ways I never could have imagined. As you may or may not expect, that single event tends to find ways to weave itself into literally everything that follows. It alters reality. It changes priorities. Normal isn’t normal anymore. But life goes on. Reality is still reality, just in a new form. Normal just becomes a different version of normal. Priorities get sorted…….or shuffled…….or scattered across the floor like a broken bag of marbles.

I don’t pretend to know what “right” actually is in this case, but I’ll keep going forward on the journey to find it. Eventually. Feel free to walk along with me.