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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.

  • The Kindred’s Curse Saga by Penn Cole

    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 one very public complaint about the fact that Book 4 still doesn’t have a release date. If you want plot, politics, slow-burn romance, and a world worth caring about, this series is exactly what you’re looking for.

    10minute read

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  • 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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// 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.

  • 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 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 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.

  • 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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