Born in small-town Ohio, raised between city and country, and now living in Southern California with my wife and our dog Rio. I've spent 20 years building and running engineering, support, and customer success teams at companies ranging from early startups to established names in tech. I started as a support tech who couldn't stop learning and somehow ended up here.
I built this site to share what I think about, what I read, what I listen to, and whatever else seems worth putting into words.
I use AI tools regularly for learning and building, but nothing published on this site was written by one. This page explains my thinking on why that distinction matters to me.
The maker and the manager
On the tension between doing the work and managing the people who do it, and why understanding both matters.
The joy of tech independence
Why owning your own corner of the internet still means something.
You are what your mind eats
On being more intentional about what you let into your head.
Respect the chain
On understanding the systems you operate in before you try to change them.
Books
An ongoing list of favorites across fiction and non-fiction, with notes on most of them.
Movies
A running list of films I keep coming back to.
Music
Favorites across hip hop and instrumental, with some backstory on why each one made the cut.