What I’m focused on

At work

Leading an RFI to redesign our supplier intake architecture around an orchestration layer rather than another point tool. Making the case — to senior sponsors who built the last generation of this stack — that the platform we choose now has to be AI-ready by design, not retrofitted later.

In the shop

Working through plans for a walnut office desk. Slower than I’d like; the hand-cut joinery is taking weekends I don’t always have.

On the road

Planning a longer ride for the fall. The cross-country trip last October left me wanting more time in the Appalachians.

On the page

Rereading the Meditations, working through a Camus biography, returning to the Bhagavad Gita for the third time and finding it different again.

At home

Sarah and I are mapping the next 6–12 years with more deliberation than feels comfortable. The point is to make the eventual transitions feel like arrivals, not escapes.