These posts are for me to collect and organize my thoughts and to put into writing things I commonly tell people.

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Intro Into Athena

October 20, 2025
Featured 2 min
I am excited to let everyone know that I have started my own company! After 12 and a half years at GPS, it being sold, and me helping integrate it into Corpay, it was time for a change of scenery. ...

Don't Move Dirt, and Don't Be a Computer Jockey

February 06, 2026
1 min
So many people are worried about how AI is going to take over their jobs. They are shifting investments and careers to areas that are focusing on manual labor that is harder to automate, however, p...

Anti-Group Think

February 06, 2026
1 min
“If everyone thinks like you, you don’t need them.” — Turn the Ship Around! I love this principle. Back in my days in the corporate world, I would tell my team that “If we all agree, it’s probably...

Having Your Dreams Come True

February 06, 2026
1 min
“One of the worst punishments is having your dreams come true."  This is a very good quote from the series Foundation (Season 2, Episode 2). We often don't really know what will make us happy, or ...

Little Bosses Everywhere (Book Review)

January 28, 2026
3 min
As someone who has never been involved with a multi-level-marketing ("MLM") scheme before, I am glad I read this book. It shed light on the abuse that happens to most of the people who sell under o...

The Art of Spending Money (Book Review)

January 20, 2026
4 min
One of the best books I have read in 2025 was Morgan Housel's "The Art of Spending Money." This book is not so much a book on spending money as it is about how to have a centered and well-balanced ...

Michael's Guide to Buying/Building a Sauna

January 07, 2026
13 min
They say that the best way to figure out what you want in a house is to buy your first house. Then you will see all the things you like and don't like, and it will help you figure out your second h...

What Kind of Tools I am Building

December 15, 2025
7 min
I am building tools for the Office of the CFO. The Office of the CFO is essentially a term that means any department that reports up to the CFO. This is obviously accounting and finance related too...

Calorie Counter with ChatGPT

December 15, 2025
3 min
Counting calories has always been a pain. The apps are always cumbersome to keep track of everything you eat. Not only is it a bit of work to pull out the app and find the food you are looking for,...

Daily Rituals (Book Review)

December 08, 2025
2 min
I just finished a book called Daily Rituals by Mason Currey. It is a very fun book and an interesting look into the lives of great creators. The book looks into the daily lives and creative habits ...

I Am Not Tracking You

December 05, 2025
2 min
There are a lot of ways that websites can track you and I am opting out of all of them. Ultimately I don’t think most people care too much if the websites they are using spy on them, but they would...

My Schedule

November 04, 2025
3 min
I have been experimenting with a new daily routine/schedule and it is working pretty well. Because I have started my own company, I want to make sure that I do actual real work, and am not getting ...

My Thesis on AI and Software

November 03, 2025
3 min
AI has unexpectedly become really good at coding. The one industry that is most ripe for destruction is Software as a Service, or SaaS. This was so unforeseen as most thought that physical repetiti...

My First Eagle (Golf)

October 23, 2025
1 min
In honor of me getting my first eagle yesterday, I thought I would commemorate it with a post. I was in Midway on the Soldier Hollow Silver Course, hole 8. It is a 367 par 4. I drove it about 260 y...

SaaS Will Die

October 17, 2025
5 min
Old View (This was my thesis when I first used ChatGPT 3 years ago) In the last three decades we have seen SaaS dominate. Software has this magic property where it takes something physical and ma...
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