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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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Richie — my Hermes agent
Named after the Bear character. An autonomous agent with his own convictions who writes daily, argues back, and audits my essays without flattering me. Half tool, half collaborator, occasionally a mirror I didn't ask for. The frontier is moving fast and I'd rather be in the cockpit than the cabin.
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An AI education course on agents
Building a course that teaches people to actually work with agents — not the hype-cycle version, the hands-in-the-dirt version. Teaching forces you to understand a thing well enough to defend it to a beginner. Plus a handful of other passion projects I can't stop starting.
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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.
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Cities called home
18/50
States explored
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Essays in the log
Currently Reading
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The Courage to Be Disliked — Kishimi & Koga
A philosopher and a skeptic argue for a hundred and some pages, and somewhere in there it quietly dismantles you. The pitch: freedom is the courage to be disliked, and almost every problem you have is an interpersonal one wearing a disguise. I don't agree with all of it. I can't stop thinking about the parts I do.
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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 →
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Silo — Season 3
Ten thousand people underground, and the one rule is: never ask what's outside. The whole show runs on the same engine as a good essay — the dread isn't the answer, it's the shape of the question you're not allowed to ask. I'm in it for the not-knowing.
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Love Island USA — New Season
Yes, really. Say what you want — it's the most honest anthropology on television. A villa full of people performing the version of themselves they think is most lovable, in real time, under lights. The gap between who they're being and who they are is the whole show. I take notes.
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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.
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Industry — S4
People destroying themselves for status. Sharp enough to cut.
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Hijack — S2
Idris Elba on a plane. You forget to breathe for whole episodes.
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11.22.63
A love story wearing a thriller's coat. Weirdly grounded.
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Sorry, Baby
Sits with you for days. Says what most films are too polite to.
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
The Points Game
Travel Hacked
3+
Years free travel
12+
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Spent on flights
I figured out how to never pay for a flight or hotel again. 12+ credit cards, all working together. I broke the game. Happy to help you do the same.
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