Founder and operator of a general contracting company in Southern California. Husband, father of two. I treat business, body, mind, and faith as one integrated project — documented, measured, and tended like a garden.
I run the building side of a fast-food franchise group: ground-up restaurants, tenant improvements, the permitting, the subs, the schedule. Most days I wear three hats — founder, project manager, superintendent — and I’m actively working to delegate two of them.
Outside of work I’m what people politely call unfocused and what I call a polymath. Comics and cinematography, architecture and SolarPunk, coding and self-hosting, fitness science, Taoism, conlangs. The interests aren’t scattered; they cluster, and the clusters connect. This site is where I make those connections visible.
What I am made of: the body I live in, the mind I think with, the soul that gives it meaning.
The people I belong to: my wife, my children and parents, and the friends and community around us.
How I meet the world: the money that secures us, the mission I build, and the lifestyle and spaces we live in.
Three larger areas, nine sub-areas. Every 12-week cycle, three or four get focus; the rest hold the line at maintenance.
Seven clusters. The deepest insights show up where they intersect — SolarPunk + architecture + smart home; Tao + fitness + code; comics + cinematography + screenwriting.
Designing systems and spaces that reflect thought and intention.
How visual media tells stories and shapes meaning.
Building systems that extend human capability.
Optimizing how the body moves, recovers, and performs.
Understanding consciousness and what makes life meaningful.
How language shapes thought and culture.
Embodied learning through travel and immersion.
Coding + 3D printing + DIY → digital designs that become physical objects. Etymology + languages + music theory → patterns in how humans encode meaning.
Pulled straight out of my Master Life Playbook. These are the rules I actually run on, not the ones I wish I did.
I run a contracting company on a written operations playbook. I run my life the same way: a Master Life Playbook, a 12 Week Year rhythm, and a personal OS. If it matters, it gets a system.
Every behavior has an A (optimal), B (sustainable), and C (maintenance) version. You pick the realistic one each week and score against it. Perfect Level C beats sloppy Level A. All-or-nothing is the failure mode; tiers are the fix.
Islam gives me discipline and direction; Taoism gives me flow. Effortless action shows up in biomechanics, in design economy, and in clean code. The same principle, three domains.
Ideas are seeds → seedlings → evergreen notes. Thirty minutes a week of linking beats a someday reorganization. Connections across domains are where the real insight lives.
9:00–10:30pm is 500+ hours a year. It used to be YouTube shorts. Now it rotates through body, mind, craft, spirit, and people. Phone on silent.
I’m 29, married, two small kids, no health issues. The habits I set in this decade compound across the next four. Strength, savings, faith, friendships — the same math.
Three layers, one surface. Operations (12 Week Year, A/B/C tiers, weekly reviews), Knowledge (a digital garden), and Identity (the interest map above). The garden inspires the goals; executing the goals enriches the garden.
Annual planning compressed into 12-week sprints. Sunday scoring, weekly execution plans, a real review every quarter. Short enough for urgency, long enough for results.
A = optimal (10 ceiling). B = sustainable (8.5). C = maintenance (7). Score = execution % × ceiling. Three C weeks in a row triggers a mandatory review.
Mon body · Tue mind · Wed craft · Thu spirit · Fri people · weekend flexible. 90 minutes at Tier A; at Tier C the only rule is no shorts.
Long-horizon identities I’m working toward, each tied to one of the eight areas.
What I’m focused on this cycle. Updated at each quarterly review.
"Your scattered interests aren’t scattered. They’re a richly connected ecosystem waiting for infrastructure."
— from the Digital Garden & Life OS Playbook