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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.

  • Deep Work by Cal Newport

    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

    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

    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

    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.

// 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.

  • 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.

  • Daily Habits That Make Me a Better Parent

    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.

  • How I Use Micro-Habits to Build Big Changes

    I used to try to overhaul my habits all at once — new sleep schedule, new routine, new nutrition plan, all on the same Monday — and wonder why nothing stuck by Thursday. The problem wasn’t motivation. It was friction. Big changes require a lot of willpower to initiate every single day, and willpower runs out. Micro-habits are a different bet entirely. They’re versions of the behavior you want that are so small it’s almost impossible to say you don’t have time for them. You attach them to things you already do without thinking, and then you just let the…

    8minute read

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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.

  • 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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