Life and Faith Belong Together
Why I left a career in complex systems to build faith-centered software for families and the church — and the conviction underneath all of it.
Field notes & essays
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Degraded Mode: How I Build AI Agent Systems That Don't Fall Over
The disciplines that keep large, life-or-death systems reliable — protocols, redundancy, degraded-mode operation, and leading people — are the same ones I use to build production AI agent systems at Genesis Labs.
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The Growth Tool I Turned Down
I had a one-click way to add a referral program to my app. It would have quietly handed off my users' contacts. Here's why I built it myself instead.
You Are the Product. It's Time to Be the Platform.
A case for digital sovereignty: why you should own your data, your identity, and your digital self—and how I'm building the infrastructure to make it possible.
05 Putting It All Together with PopKit
How workflow orchestration tools bring all these pieces into a coherent system
06 The Human-Agent Collaboration Workflow
Practical patterns for working alongside AI assistants day-to-day
07 Monorepos & Multi-Project Architecture
Scaling agent-ready practices across large, complex codebases
08 Git Hooks & Automation Pipelines
Programmatic quality gates that catch issues before they become problems
09 Documentation as Executable Context
Making your docs do double duty as AI context and human reference
10 Milestones & Project Boards: The Big Picture
How high-level organization helps agents understand where individual tasks fit
11 Issue Templates That Guide AI Assistants
Structured issues that give agents the context they need to actually help
Building a Family OS: Why I Created Genesis
After 21 years in the Navy managing complex systems and leading teams, I realized families need their own operating system. Here's why I'm building Genesis.
13 Branch Protection & PR Workflows for AI Collaboration
Creating guardrails that protect your codebase while enabling AI contributions
14 Foundation Files That Agents Actually Read
README.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md—and why each one serves a different purpose
Manufacturing Intelligence: Building Daniel-Son from the Factory Floor Up
How my experience managing 47 manufacturing facilities led me to build a real-time OEE tracking platform with 126 React components and offline-first architecture.
16 The Agent-Ready Repository Manifesto
Why repository structure matters more than ever in the age of AI-assisted development
Emergency Preparedness in the Digital Age: What 21 Years in the Navy Taught Me
How Navy damage control training shapes my approach to family emergency preparedness, and why most digital emergency plans will fail.