What I'm Doing Now

Building

This website is still the foundation for everything else on my roadmap. Built with Astro, Tailwind, and deployed on Vercel. On top of it I've been shipping the guides I kept re-explaining to people: The One Paste (sets someone up in Claude Cowork in under 10 minutes), a full Cowork guide, an AI setup guide for the Journeymen Triangle mentorship nonprofit, and an enablement guide for a coworker getting started.

The Cowork OS plugin is done: six skill cards and the four-part guide. So are the rebuilt RPI skills, which came out of one idea worth stealing: the handoff document is the real product of each phase, not the pile of work behind it. The Claude Starter Kit on GitHub is still the canonical "here's how I actually use Claude" package.

What changed this summer is what I'm building less of. I hit peak AI frenzy, automated everything I could reach, and then came back down. I use AI more than ever and I build far less scaffolding around it. The hard part of my job was never the automatable part.

Working

Product management in the Salesforce ecosystem, building workflow tools for highly regulated industries. That's the day job, and it's not going anywhere. I like it.

Sorting the Money

After a couple of years of overthinking it, the boring machine is finally locked in. A simple 70/20/10 framework: 70% automated index core, 20% capped conviction sleeve, 10% dry powder for the next correction. The investing page now lists the actual funds and their expense ratios, plus the mastermind group that did more to change my behavior than any book did.

Experimenting

Deep into AI tools, still trying to separate what works from what makes a good demo video. Part of that was working through 49 certifications to pressure-test the landscape, then stopping at 49 instead of the 100 I planned. The full breakdown of the tools I use lives on the homepage, but the short version: Wispr Flow for voice, Claude Cowork as the backbone, MCP connections as the glue, and Incogni plus Claude for monthly privacy sweeps.

One honest correction: I used to have Granola on this list for meeting notes, and it is still the best meeting-notes tool I have ever used. It is not approved at my current company, so I moved to Notion. Leaving the link up with the note attached, because the recommendation is real and the reason it left is the part worth knowing. That gap between the best tool and the allowed tool is where most people in regulated industries actually live.

Playing

The five-night Magic campaign I built to teach my wife Bailey and her friend Divya is finished. They lost the finale because they were too scared to attack with two enormous boards, which is the funniest and most useful thing I learned running it. We went straight into four-player Commander afterward and they now want to build their own decks. The whole write-up, the custom cards with their faces on them, and the AI art that went badly wrong first are all on the Magic page, along with all eight of my Commander decks.

Thursdays used to be the Context Window meetup. We ran it eight weeks, learned a lot, and ended it on purpose. Thursdays are pickleball now.

The Family AI Report

I was going to build my newly-retired parents a whole algorithm detox. Then both of them picked up AI on their own and went somewhere I never would have sent them, which was mildly humbling and extremely funny.

My dad makes AI music now. Not casually. Prolifically. It is a full retirement hobby and he is more consistent about shipping than I am. Go listen to it.

My mom builds pickleball training camp programs with it, full session plans and drill progressions, while also running Serve With Joy, a professional wait staff service for events around Raleigh. Weddings, rehearsal dinners, holiday parties, family reunions. Setup, serving, cleanup, and she will handle the beverage service and the catering referrals too.

So to be clear about the household standings: my mother runs a small business and a pickleball curriculum, my father is a working musician, and I write blog posts about folder structure. If you are throwing an event anywhere near Raleigh, hire my mom. She is better at this than I am at anything.

Cleaning Up

The big one is done. I pulled my data off more than 30 platforms, normalized 389,508 rows of it into 219 standardized CSVs covering 2008 to 2026, backed the archive up twice, and then deleted the accounts one at a time. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, all of it. I own 100% of my own history now and none of those platforms do. The full write-up is here, including what 18 years of your own data actually says about you.

Still ongoing: the monthly online presence scrub. Incogni handles the automated data broker removals, I do a manual sweep with Claude once a month, and my parents and Bailey are on the family plan.

Reading & Listening

Always have an audiobook or podcast going. I tend to run wide on topics: business, finance, news, politics, tech. When things get busy, I narrow the lens to just what I can control: my job, the tech I'm building with, and my wife Bailey. Check out my books, podcasts, and YouTube creators for the full picture.

Past Adventures

During COVID I went deep on VR as a hobby. Full Valve Index setup, full body tracking, custom mods, tons of experiments. ThrillSeeker's YouTube channel got me through the dark times. It was genuinely fun, but at the end of the day it was a lot of work to set up, hard to play for more than 40 minutes, and awkward in a shared living space. Amazing tech, not quite frictionless enough yet. Still think it's the future though.