These days, my day job is all about optimizing email deliverability, but I am fascinated by making computers faster. Originally, that was even the focus of the company I cofounded (until we pivoted to emails—got to pay the rent!). I still believe that the way we’ve built the computing ecosystem is fundamentally flawed and, in many ways, disempowering. My focus in on the JVM (despite the JVM being undervalued by a lot) but the techniques are architecture independant (e.g. x86, ARM, Python, Javasc...