[japhyr]

Yes. I wanted to be a particle physicist, but decided to teach for a couple years so I wouldn't go straight HS->university->grad school. I stayed in teaching, though, because I found the intellectual challenges of teaching well just as satisfying as hard science. 20 years later, I'm still happy with my decision.

Studying physics meant I have always had a way to think about any science question any student has ever asked. I can't answer every question, but I can always give students a good way to think about answering their question.

These days I'm working hard to apply what I know about programming to solve long standing problems in education. The education field is about 40 years behind the programming world as far as making efficient tools available to everyone in the field, which means there is much low-hanging fruit for someone with a solid grounding in both education and software development.

I want to build the Emacs and GitHub of the education world.