I optimize systems. The most important one is you.
My day job is orchestrating multi-million dollar construction projects. I take complex, high-stakes systems and make them work.
But my real obsession is applying that same systems-thinking to human performance.
I believe the principles that build incredible teams and landmark projects are the same ones that build an optimized life—a life with more focus, more energy, and a hell of a lot more impact.
This site is where I share my field notes on using tools like AI and Quantified Self to master the intersection of high-stakes work and a high-performance life.
Or, here are some of my most recent articles below.
Recent posts
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MCP, LM Studio and NOTION – Part 2
In our last episode I was going to simply point LM Studio to my Notion and *jazz hands*. Wrong. First I had to find the code that would point at Docker. Hmmm. I had to look a few places and despite the warnings of LM Studio, I was putting rando code in to see if… Continue reading →
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MCP, LM Studio and Notion – Part 1
2025-07-20 Do you watch Greg Isenburg’s podcasts? He has his guests show the ‘sauce’. I love it! Well I love watching it. The guests make it look so easy. I see what they are doing and I already have ideas for what their inventions can do for me… and then I try to make them… Continue reading →
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Diarization and Transcription
2025-07-06 I had it in my mind that it would be great to be able to do transcriptions without pumping audio into some random website. n8n I was mid trying to figure out n8n and had this workflow that would call whisper (openAI key) for the transcript. The transcription worked, but it just puked out… Continue reading →
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Hello world!
Welcome to my journal of thinkings. More to come soon. Continue reading →