Currently Doing
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Senior TPM at ServiceNow
Supporting the CTO's office with executive briefings, strategic customer engagements, and partnership coordination. The work that happens before the meeting that makes the meeting work.
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Ongoing Medical Treatment
Navigating an ongoing treatment that's occupying a significant chunk of my life and bandwidth right now. It's serious, it's demanding, and it's teaching me things about patience and perspective that no book could. Some chapters aren't ones you choose.
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Building this website
You're looking at it. A personal site that feels like a movie, not a resume. Cinematic AI-generated hero art, the whole works. Storymaxxing in code.
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The 50-State Project
Visiting 31 new states this year. Oklahoma City confirmed for February. Strategic routing around weather patterns, walkable cities, and hotel loyalty programs. 18 down, 32 to go.
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Table Tennis
Playing whenever I get a chance. There's something about the pace of it — fast enough to shut your brain off, slow enough to be strategic. The perfect reset.
By the Numbers
18/50
States visited
12+
Credit cards active
$0
Spent on flights (3yr)
Currently Reading
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Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke
Coming back to Clarke's masterpiece. The sense of scale, the mystery of the unknown, the humility of encountering something so far beyond human comprehension. It hits different the second time — you notice what you projected onto the silence.
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Psycho-Cybernetics — Maxwell Maltz
The original self-image psychology book. The idea that you can't outperform the image you hold of yourself — and that changing the image changes everything. Connects directly to what I write about on the blog.
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The Observation Deck
My own essays on human psychology and what drives our actions. Writing is thinking — this is where I think out loud. Read it →
Currently Watching
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Industry — Season 4
High finance, moral compromise, and people destroying themselves for status. The writing is sharp enough to cut. Best show on TV right now.
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Hijack — Season 2
Idris Elba on a plane. Real-time tension. The kind of show where you forget to breathe for entire episodes.
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T20 Cricket World Cup
Cricket is the sport I grew up with. The T20 format is chaos compressed into three hours — anything can happen and usually does.
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Bengals Offseason
WHO DEY. Watching every combine clip, mock draft, and free agency rumor. The anxiety never truly goes away — it just changes form between seasons.
Currently Listening
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Jazz bar hunting in Chicago
Always looking for the next dimly lit room with a trio playing standards. If you know a spot, email me.
Thinking About
Why we do what we do. Not the surface-level answers — the real machinery underneath. The self-image that runs the show while we think we're in control. The patterns we repeat and call them choices. This is what drives the blog.
The gap between who people perform as and who they are at 2am when nobody's watching. That gap is where all the interesting writing lives.
How the best personal brands aren't built — they're collected. Every story, every detour, every city that leaves a mark. The resume is a lie. The stories are the truth.
Interests Right Now
Credit card optimization
Human psychology
AI image generation
Stand-up comedy
Fantasy football analytics
Gujarati fusion cooking
Web design
Aviation
Space travel
Table tennis
Hotel loyalty programs
Chicago food scene
Penguin facts
Cricket