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February 25, 2026Life
I split my time between Chattanooga, TN and Fayetteville, WV — two towns with world-class outdoor access and tight-knit communities. Weekends are for getting outside or working on my 110-year-old house.
Outside the day job, I enjoy running, swimming, and climbing. I run a homelab and an orchestrated AI agent workflow for personal projects — agents delegating across sub-agents, wired through terminal-first tooling.
I'm also studying vehicle dynamics, dialing in suspension, and working toward my first HPDE season.
Work
I'm fortunate to be able to work remotely as a Program Director for a Fortune 500 managed care provider. I lead cross-functional teams bridging data engineering, analytics, and business strategy. It's rewarding work that impacts tens of thousands of co-workers and many millions of customers.
Future
- AI leadership. I've spent 25 years teaching myself new domains — networking, systems, devops, data engineering, software. AI is the current one. I'm building orchestrated agent workflows at home and I want to do it professionally.
- A culture that respects focused work over seat time.
- A place where the energy I bring to homelab projects is the norm. I've been a self-taught nerd my entire life and I'm not going to stop.
Bookshelf
187 books tracked · 2015–2026 + prior
2026 (1)
How to Change your Mind2024 (7)
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World The Intelligent Investor Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character2022 (3)
The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning The Psychology of Money I Am Legend
2020 (22)
Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Kite Runner
The Lord of the Rings
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
The Enchiridion
[+] 12 more
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Discrete Mathematics and it's Applications Python3 The Hard Way Unwanted The Book of Joy Let's pretend this never happened The Personality Brokers The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality2019 (13)
ReWork Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation (Everyman's Library) Whitman: Poems The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman Self-Reliance and Other Essays Gang Leader for a Day Re:Work The Crossing Cities of the Plain All the Pretty Horses The Idiot2018 (17)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting The Master Key System Snow Crash The War of Art Man's Search for Meaning Snowcrash Codependent No More Ask Polly's Guide To Your Next Crisis Getting The Love You Want Tribe of Mentors The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Sapiens A Brief History of Time Kitchen Confidential Devil in the Kitchen Manhood
2017 (24)
Popular Tales from Norse Mythology
Thrilling Cities
The Book of Five Rings
The Simple Path to Wealth
Early Retirement Extreme
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Aesop's Fables
Ulysses
How to Speak and Write Correctly
Popular Tales from the Norse
[+] 14 more
Complete Works of David Hume (selections) The Greatest Generation Don Quixote The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Collection The Wisdom of Insecurity The 4-Hour Body The Little Book that Beats the Market A Book of Five Rings Meditations Designing Your Life The New Better Off Your Money or Your Life The Magic of Thinking BIG City in the City2016 (17)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Still Life with Woodpecker Media Control Practical Lock Picking The Rings of Saturn The Economist Guide to Financial Markets Gratitude Cryptonomicon The Name of the Wind The Wise Man's Fear Power Systems How to Archer The Joy of x Ready Player One The Road to Character Berkshire Hathaway Letters2015 (6)
The Windup Girl The Martian The City & The City 1Q84 The Swarm 4 Hour Work Week
<2015 (77)
The Watchmen
Evidence
The White Tiger
Collapse: How Societies Chose to Fail or Succeed
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Prince
Sphere
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
[+] 67 more
Redwall Mossflower Mattimeo Martin the Warrior Salamandastron Mariel of Redwall The Bellmaker Outcast of Redwall Pearls of Lutra The Long Patrol Inferno The Book of Three The Black Cauldron Taran Wanderer The Castle of Llyr The High King The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain A Game of Thrones A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords A Feast for Crows A Dance with Dragons The Flight of the Silvers Dune Dune Messiah Children of Dune The Gunslinger The Drawing of the Three The Waste Lands Wizard and Glass Wolves of the Calla Song of Susannah The Dark Tower American Gods Ender's Game Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The New American Road Trip Mixtape Self-Coached Climber Shantaram The One-Straw Revolution The China Study The Hobbit Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers Return of the King This is Water 9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes Great Expectations The Communist Manifesto Ethics The Odyssey Dracula The Hedge Knight Flow Foundation Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion Endymion The Rise of Endymion The History of Herodotus Autobiography of a Yogi A Picture of Dorian Gray Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The Art of War A Tale of Two Cities Pride and Prejudice The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesAlbums
29 albums · releases spanning 1967–2024
2019
The Jackson 5 — Gold (2005)
hits. that Motown sound.
Leon Bridges — Coming Home (2015)
Incredible Delta sounds.
Herb Alpert — Rise (1979)
bonkers.
The Runaways — The Runaways (1976)
Early Joan Jett.
The Police — Outlandos D'Amour (Remastered 2003) (1978)
Co-worker and I played two albums from the Police last week. I never knew that the drummer was Moroccan? Allegedly, they started the punk/reggae vibe because they were not able to get folks digging their more eclectic sound.
The Police — Reggatta De Blanc (1979)
Ok. Sting is both dark AF and an odd-ball. I dig it. Walking on the Moon is a great song, ostensibly about floating home on positive vibes from his girlfriends house. We've all been there.
Photay — Photay (2014)
A Patrick recommendation.
Daft Punk — Discovery (2001)
The year I graduated High School rewarded me with this incredible album. An all time favorite.
The Beach Boys — Endless Summer (1974)
Most of these songs could get you beat up at the beach in New Jersey. Growing up I think my Father enjoyed these albums, but I don't know why. The opening of Good Vibrations is legendary.
Propagandhi — How to Clean Everything (1993)
Formative in my early teens.
Johnny Cash — At Folsom Prison (1968)
Johnny Fucking Cash.
The Budos Band — The Budos Band II (2007)
Charles Bradly's backing band formed Budos. Tight, tight, tight.
Broken Social Scene — You Forgot It In People (2003)
an old favorite
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band — Safe as Milk (1967)
"Catching up, huh?"
Gang Starr — Moment of Truth (1998)
Seminal and socially woke.
Tyler, The Creator — IGOR (2019)
Interesting. I don't know enough about the Artist.
Alex, Tokyo Rose — Akuma II (2019)
Bembeya Jazz National — Discothèque 76 (1976)
wonderful afro-jazz. The third track is a long-time favorite
Orville Peck — Pony (2019)
Shoegaze-Outlaw-Country...AWESOME!
Night Moves — Colored Emotions (2012)
Smooth and fun. Little sexy.
Tom Petty — Wildflowers (1994)
Classic album with some of what I think is his best work.
Buckethead — Colma (1998)
I don't know anything about Buckethead except that it seems to be a fun mockery of Slash's aestetic choices. Super enjoyable progressive instrumental guitar work.
Better Oblivion Community Center — Better Oblivion Community Center (2019)
think I'll have to give this one a few more listens over the coming weeks. Initial impressions are that it's fucking incredible.
The Horrible Crowes — Elsie (2011)
Gaslight Anthem front-man does a Tom Waits, Nick Cave inspired album. The first few tracks destroyed me. I like the contrast of upbeat tempo with crushing lyrics.
Beck — Colors (2017)
Beck. One of those artists who I expect will put out at least interesting if
Circa Survive — Juturna (2005)
I originally received this album from the lead singer at a 24 hour dinner
Daikaiju — Daikaiju (2005)
In Japanese, Daikaiju translates to "giant monster" Recorded in *2003*, but not released until *2005*.
Epilogue
Previous iterations: v3 (2020) · v2 (2015) · v1 (2013) · Built February 28, 2026
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