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// About Me
Dad of 3. Developer. Always Busy.
Full-time dad. Hybrid athlete. Developer. Chronic over-committer. I write about building software, logging miles, and figuring out how to do too many things without completely losing it.
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years writing code
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kids keeping me busy
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hobbies at any given time
// books
What I’ve Been Reading
Thoughts, notes, and occasional overreactions to the books I’ve finished. Some changed how I think. Some were just entertaining. Either way, this is where I leave my notes behind.
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Deep Work by Cal Newport
Deep Work by Cal Newport makes the case that focused, distraction-free work is the most valuable skill in the modern economy. Eight hours on audio and I came away with a system I actually use.
8minute read
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Disney Adults by AJ Wolfe
Disney Adults by AJ Wolfe is a fun, interview-driven look at the people who never outgrew the magic. I picked it up because the title called me out by name, and I finished it because it’s more honest and interesting than you’d expect.
8minute read
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Alchemised by SenLinYu
No spoiler review. Alchemised is a thousand-page gut punch disguised as a romance that I could not put down and am still thinking about. If you read romantasy and haven’t picked this up yet, fix that.
7minute read
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The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss is a self-experimentation log from someone who treated his own body like a startup. Worth reading if you want a book that challenges your assumptions, even the ones you end up disagreeing with.
8minute read
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// coding
What I’ve Been Coding
Projects, experiments, and occasional rabbit holes. Some made it into production. Some quietly died in development. This is where I keep the lessons and progress.
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Claude Code vs Cursor: Which AI Coding Tool is Actually Better?
I started with Cursor when I first got into AI-assisted development, then switched to Claude Code and never looked back. Here’s the honest breakdown of both tools, what they’re actually good at, and which one you should pick.
11minute read
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Building a Personal Dashboard with Claude Code (No Experience Needed)
I built a personal dashboard that shows my training load, to-dos, and weekly calendar using Claude Code. Here
12minute read
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How I Use Claude Code to Build Small Tools That Save Me Time
I don’t want to spend my personal time writing boilerplate for throwaway scripts. Claude Code lets me describe what I need, get a working tool in minutes, and move on. Here’s how I actually use it with a real example from my workflow.
9minute read
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What Can I Use Claude For? More Than You Think.
Most people think of Claude as a fancy chatbot. It’s a lot more than that. Here’s a practical look at what I actually use it for day to day, as a developer, a dad, and someone with too many things going on.
15minute read
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// Health & Fitness
How I’ve Been Moving
Things I’ve tried, habits I’ve kept, and occasional updates from the endless project of taking better care of myself.
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How to Train for a Marathon When You Have 3 Kids
TLDR: Marathon training plans are written for people with time. I don’t have time. I have three kids, a full-time job, a wife who also works, and a hockey league that doesn’t care about my long run schedule. What I figured out is that you only need three runs a week to make this work. Protect those three. Be flexible with everything else. Finish the race. Nobody warned me that signing up for a marathon with three kids under ten would turn my entire household into a military logistics operation. My wife didn’t sign up for this either, technically, but…
13minute read
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My Current Gym Routine: What’s Actually Working
My current Push/Pull/Legs/Upper/Lower split, five days a week, and why it’s the routine that’s actually stuck. What I’m doing, what’s working, and what I’d change if I was starting over.
6minute read
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The Caveman Method to Physical and Mental Health
Your body is still running caveman hardware in a modern world, and that mismatch is why so many of us feel off. The Caveman Method is a simple three-pillar framework built around how we’re actually wired to move, sleep, and recover.
17minute read
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// Parenting
How I Raising My Kids
Parenting has turned out to be less about having answers and more about paying attention. These are some things I’ve noticed along the way.
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Daily Habits That Make Me a Better Parent
I’m not a parenting expert. I’m a dad of three figuring it out in real time. But there are a handful of small daily habits that consistently make me a better version of myself in that role, and none of them require time I don’t have.
8minute read
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// Money
Heare’s How I Think About Money
Money feels less like a goal these days and more like a tool. This is where I write about the choices, experiments, and tradeoffs along the way.
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// Productivity
How I Stay Productive
Systems, habits, and small changes that help me spend more time doing and less time planning.
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How I Use Claude to Turn Brain Dumps Into Structured Notion Pages
I have a bad habit of dumping half-formed thoughts into Notion and never touching them again. Claude fixed that. Here’s the exact workflow I use to turn messy brain dumps into structured pages I can actually work from.
8minute read
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How I Used Trello to Track My Job Search
I got laid off, applied to hundreds of jobs, and immediately had no idea what was going on with any of them. Here’s how I landed on Trello as my job search tracker and the exact board setup that kept me sane.
8minute read
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// Hot takes
What I’ve Been Thining About
Opinions, observations, and ideas I’ve spent more time thinking about than I probably should have.
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What Is a Disney Adult?
A hot take on Disney adults, why everyone seems to hate us, and why both of those things are more interesting than they sound. I’m not here to apologize for any of it.
10minute read
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