Simon graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada, with an M.Eng. (Engineering Physics) degree. He worked at Bell-Northern Research (BNR) as an Integrated Circuit Designer. He voluntarily left BNR to focus on raising his 3 children with critical thinking skills while becoming an entrepreneur with numerous ideas (e.g., "Multi-Lingual Knowledge Matrix", "HyperFeeder", "MagneScribe", "Magic Spicer", "Hyper-biOObi", etc.), all of which have miserably failed financially but have given him great experience, knowledge and wisdom. They are crystalised as "absolute simplicity, ultimate consistency and complete organisation". Now, he works as an independent patent analyst.
Simon leads a lonely but hyper-ecological minimalist no-pet no-TV sugar-less lifestyle. His core values are genuine substance over superficial appearance, and positive futuristic concepts of the Star Trek franchise. In 2017, he won the Grand Prize of "Innovation150 Canadian Life Hacks Contest" organised by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and won a trip to SNOLAB in Sudbury, ON, Canada. Since then, he has continued to create, improve and document his life hacks on ProjectBoard, taking special advantage of being poor and lazy. They are mostly junk after junk, but he would be pleased if 1/2 of 1/2 of 1/2 of 1/2 of them inspired some engineers to see the merits and say "If Simon could do it this way, I can do it better!".
NASA Tech Briefs published his discovery of the "Anisotropic Electromagnetic Force Phenomena" in "The Create the Future Design Contest". The unexpected effect of magnetic attraction of like poles and that of magnetic repulsion of paperclips and nails can be experienced and understood by any 10-year old school kid, who would then challenge "My teacher and the textbook are wrong!". So, it could inspire them to pursue a career in STEM and go on to make new discoveries and inventions.
Simon submitted the "Ultra-High-Efficiency Self-Regulating Symmetrical Homopolar Motor with a Circular Rotor" comprising an AA battery, a disc-shaped rare-earth magnet and a copper wire with only 1 bend point (change in the angle of curvature) to the Guinness World Records as "The Simplest Homopolar Motor". Since electric current flow in the circuit is not continuous but intermittent, power consumption is low enough to keep the rotation going and going and going like the Energizer Bunny. He is hoping that such a challenge for simplicity could benefit STEM education.
