Work

Systems

Systems I Spend Time On

I spend most of my time exploring SEO. Before that, I worked in inventory control and production planning, stock flow, counts, and timing. I also come from handset repair: boards, parts, and the kind of faults you only see once a device is open.

Search Systems

Search engines are systems built to decide relevance. I find that interesting because relevance is not fixed. It shifts depending on what people actually want when they type something in, not just what the words say.

Most of my attention goes toward understanding structure. How a site is organized, how content connects, and whether the right pages are easy for both people and crawlers to reach. Getting those basics right tends to matter more than any single optimization trick.

I also pay attention to how search behavior changes over time. What people search for, and how they phrase it, reflects how they think. That part never stops being worth studying.

Operational Systems

Before SEO became my main focus, I spent years working in inventory control and production planning. The work was about keeping things moving without waste. Too much stock was a problem. Too little was also a problem. The goal was balance, and balance required constant attention to numbers and timing.

That kind of work teaches you to think carefully before acting. A small miscalculation in stock levels could ripple forward into production delays. It was slow, methodical, and detail-heavy.

I still apply that way of thinking. When something feels off in a system, I tend to look at the flow first before assuming the problem is in one isolated spot.

Device Systems

My interest in devices started with hardware. I worked as a phone repair technician — swapping parts, reading schematics, and tracing faults on boards.

That work is physical and unforgiving. A loose connector, a short, or the wrong part shows up immediately. It taught me to look at the whole device, not just the symptom on the screen.

I still follow Android hardware and repair when something is worth opening up. Software comes second to whether the machine itself is sound.

Search, operations, and devices are different on the surface, but they all come down to understanding how things connect and where things tend to break.

Tools

Tools I Reach For

Sorted by the kind of work they support, the same three threads as above.

Search & SEO

Crawl, measure, and understand how visibility works.

Google Search ConsoleAhrefsSEMrushGoogle AnalyticsScreaming Frog

Operations & Planning

Stock counts, production schedules, and keeping inventory flow aligned.

SAPOdoo InventoryGoogle SheetsMicrosoft ExcelNotion

Devices & Repair

Handset repair, schematics, and hardware-level troubleshooting.

Borneo SchematicBoard-level repairParts & schematicsADB & Fastboot