The Dogs Who Shaped My Life: From Jimmy to Choco and Cookie
Personal StoryDogs
A lifetime of companionship across six dogs, from a school-night surprise to the two souls who share my home today.
Entrepreneur · Software designer
I turn ambitious ideas into practical companies and products—and I’m fascinated by one improbable destination: space.
Today, most of my focus is on Stocky Pro, while I continue building and supporting the ventures, people, and causes I care about.
Where my time goes
Stocky Pro receives 90% of my time. SPURGE runs through its team and systems with my strategic oversight, while Kyzion compounds quietly as a long-term real estate investment.
Business operations software · 2024 — Present
Building a new generation of business operations software with a team of eight engineers—and giving it 90% of my time today.
Laptop rentals & IT ops · 2019 — Present
A self-funded laptop rental company serving clients every day through a 20+ person team and software built around its operations.
Real estate & short-term stays · 2026 — Present
A patient real estate investment company focused on short-term-rental properties and long-term asset value.
Earlier chapters
The products and companies that built the foundation for everything I run today.
Music creation platform · 2019 — 2020
Built a music creation product from its first line of code through the funding and growth that followed.
Early company building · 2014 — 2018
My first formal company and office, serving clients with custom software and growing into increasingly ambitious projects.
Web, mobile, and internal tools · 2014 — 2018
The all-in college years: building day and night, learning through delivery, and finding the value in every product.
Photo journal
Roads, people, dogs, and the quiet frames that make the larger story feel real.
Explore
Work, stories, photographs, people, and plans—organized into clear paths.
Latest writing
A focused set of recent essays without mixing in every sidebar concept at once.
A lifetime of companionship across six dogs, from a school-night surprise to the two souls who share my home today.
How a decade-old dream about orbiting planets evolved into Stocky Pro and Stocky Space — a new way to think about business operat…
How a cramped community hostel, a failed living arrangement, and an unexpected act of kindness gave me the space to grow into mys…
Thoughts
Something I worked out and wanted to be able to point at later, short enough to read where you find it.
With no one else’s energy around you, there is finally room to hear your own — who you are, what you want, what you do not. I am only at the start of it.
We carry moral, emotional and physical duties to everyone we build a life with. I do not think we were born only to discharge those, and forget the one we owe ourselves.
Do not lose your sharpness, your thinking or your sense of a situation to anyone — however famous, clever or wise you believe they are. You will regret dropping your guard.
People
Companies are built by people. These are some of the teammates who shaped the work and the way I lead.
Meet everyoneNewsletter
Occasional notes on software, companies, operations, people, and the long road toward space — only when there is something useful to share.
