About
- Name
- Jeremy Freelove
- Day job
- Chief Accountant, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
- Sport
- Excel esports
- Reach me
I’m an accountant who got good at the techie side, and then kept going.
I’m an accountant at the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, where I started at the bottom and worked my way up to Chief Accountant. Along the way I was usually the one asking why a task took as long as it did, and then quietly rebuilding it so it didn’t.
Excel was the tool of my trade, so I became one with my tool. Apprentice, then journeyman, then master. These days I compete with it: Excel esports is a real and gloriously niche sport, where competitors race through modelling and puzzle-solving under time pressure. I go up against the best in the world at it.
I believe in continual self-improvement, which lately means learning to be a leader. That one is a work in progress, and probably always will be.
What I’m into
| Subject | What it is to me |
|---|---|
| Excel | The tool of my trade and the thing I know most deeply. |
| Excel esports | Competitive spreadsheet racing. Yes, really. |
| Automation and process improvement | Making the work do itself. The habit that shaped my career. |
| Emerging technology, especially AI | Where most of my curiosity goes right now. |
| Leadership | A work in progress. |
| Algorithms and computer science | From a novice’s perspective. I like knowing how things actually work. |
| Popular science | Reading for the pleasure of finding things out. |
| The Las Vegas Raiders | Not a technical interest. Just a fact about me. |
Why I write here
Mostly for myself. Writing something down is how I find out whether I actually understand it, and this site is where I keep what I’ll want to look up again later.
The rest is for you. Most of what’s here was paid for with my own sweat and tears, and you may as well have the lessons quickly.
Getting in touch
The best place to find me is LinkedIn. Everything on this site is mine alone and doesn’t represent my employer.
Colophon
This site is a set of plain HTML pages built with Eleventy and served by Cloudflare. It’s set in Bahnschrift, Segoe UI and Cascadia Mono, and it looks like a spreadsheet on purpose. I draft and build it with the help of AI tools, which is only fair, given how much of my curiosity they currently occupy.