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# About

hi! I’m Peter. I work as a product manager at the [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/). 

There, I help build the [core editing and communication experiences](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Experiences) volunteers use to make [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias) a resource people can rely on.

Reflection is a tool I depend on to process what I’m thinking, develop ideas, name what I’m noticing, and, more broadly, embody and evolve in the roles I play: spouse, father, friend, collaborator, product manager, godfather, son, brother, uncle, neighbor, etc.

In 2012, motivated to become more effective at identifying patterns in what I thought about and reacted to, I [started an experiment](/pings/experiments/yearly-letters.md). 

Unbeknownst to me at the time, [this first experiment](/pings/experiments/yearly-letters.md) marked the beginning of [an ongoing practice of experimenting](/pings/experiments.md) with ways to translate everyday experiences into insights and actions that align with what I think I need and value.

Until now, I’ve kept these experiments to myself. This place is a way to make what I'm learning legible enough for my future self to build on. It also serves as a reference, an anchor...a "place" I can leave from, come back to, and use to orient when I feel "far away."