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Builds
Harbor AILive
A workspace for documents, ideas, and plans where the AI has the context it needs instead of pretending it does.
Songbook IQLive
A place for songs, tabs, lyrics, and the half-finished musical fragments that usually disappear.
Conductor FrameworkLive
The scaffolding I use to build apps with AI without losing the thread halfway through.
Idea AppAlpha
A thinking system for capturing ideas with the context that made them matter in the first place.
MeridianIn Progress
A live monitor for weak signals across markets, infrastructure, and geopolitics.
Before Times
Predicting Police Misconduct✦exit✦
The patterns were there before the headlines. The work was turning those signals into something people could act on early.
Predicting Operating Room Activity🦄✦exit✦
Operating rooms look chaotic until you sit with the people running the day. The patterns were there.
Predicting Industrial Failures🦄✦exit✦
Big machines give off more signals than anyone can read by hand. The work was turning those signals into warnings people trusted.
Predicting Insurance Risk✦exit✦
The risk was not in the demographics. It was in how departments actually operated, and the data made that visible.
Post and Beam Construction
Before software, there was wood, weight, joinery, and the simple satisfaction of making something real by hand.
Teaching PM and UX Research
Teaching product and research kept pulling the work back to the basics: understand people before deciding what to build.

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Watch · YouTube
AI War Rooms, Iran vs USA, World Monitor App (Happening Now!)
Writing
I Won YouTube in 30 Days and Walked Away

I got monetized 30 days in. Almost immediately, I could feel the trap.

The Barbell Strategy for the AI Age

The middle is where most people are. It feels like the responsible choice. It's not.

The World Is Getting Less Predictable. That's the Opportunity.

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Active Projects
Fitness Design LabIn Progress
Every fitness program I tried felt like punishment. So I stopped looking for the right one and designed my own.
Western Civ: The Arc of LogosIn Progress
I went looking for a book that would explain how the Western world got to where it is. That book doesn't exist, so I'm building it.