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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
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The Shepherd King by Rachel Gillig
No spoilers. The Shepherd King duology by Rachel Gillig is dark, atmospheric gothic fantasy built around one of the most compelling dynamics I’ve encountered in the genre — a woman sharing her mind with an…
8minute read
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The Kindred’s Curse Saga by Penn Cole
No spoilers. The Kindred’s Curse Saga by Penn Cole is the romantasy series I didn’t know I needed — I devoured all three published books in an embarrassingly short window. Five stars, zero hesitation, and…
10minute read
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// coding
What I’ve Been Coding
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How I Set Up the .claude Directory on Every Project
Most people let Claude Code create the .claude directory and never look inside it again. That’s leaving a lot on the table. The .claude folder is the control panel for how Claude behaves in your…
14minute read
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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…
11minute read
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// Health & Fitness
How I’ve Been Moving
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6-Week Half Marathon Training Plan for Busy People
Six weeks, three runs a week, and a 13.1 finish line. This is the no-fluff half marathon training plan built around a life that doesn’t stop for your training schedule.
12minute read
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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…
13minute 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 Review My Goals Every Month Without Feeling Overwhelmed
I review my yearly goals every month and it takes about fifteen minutes. No dashboard, no color-coded tracker, no elaborate system — just my notes app and three honest questions per goal. Simple on purpose, because complicated is what made me stop doing it before. Here’s exactly what the review looks like, why it works when fancier systems didn’t, and how to start your own version without building anything new.
8minute read
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I Let Claude Plan My Weekly Meals and Grocery List
Meal planning has always been one of those things I knew I should do but couldn’t make stick. I’d plan meals on Sunday with the energy of someone who’d never met themselves on a Wednesday, buy all the ingredients, and watch half of them go bad because the plan didn’t survive contact with a real week. The problem wasn’t motivation — it was that generic meal plans never account for what your actual week looks like. I saved my go-to recipes to Claude’s memory, connected it to my Google Calendar, and built a workflow that plans meals around my real…
10minute read
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My Sunday Routine That Sets Me Up for a Productive Week
Sunday used to be the day I told myself I’d get organized and then didn’t. Now it’s the day that makes every other day easier. A few hours of deliberate prep on Sunday means Monday through Friday run on decisions I’ve already made — what to eat, when to train, what the kids are having for breakfast — instead of ones I have to figure out at 6am half asleep. Here’s exactly what I do, why each piece is in the routine, and how to start building your own version without overhauling everything at once.
10minute read
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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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// 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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