Festina lente
Builder · Seattle · Cascadia
Prologue
I build things meant to outlast me — companies, software, and one day, institutions. I live in Cascadia, between the volcanoes and the sea, and I read history the way engineers read failure reports: to learn what holds, and what falls.
I.Career
I grow things.
By trade I'm a growth marketer — lifecycle, data and performance — across AI infrastructure, media, venture and crypto. The through-line is systems: build the machine, then let it compound.
RunPodLifecycle Marketing Manager · 2025
Lifecycle journeys that lifted utilization and conversion across an AI cloud, worth seven figures annually.
Savage VenturesEmail Marketing Manager · 2023 – 24
Ran email across a $100M venture fund: 1M+ active subscribers, 5M+ site visits a month, and operating costs cut by 75%.
Kosei AdvisorsDigital Assets Manager · 2022 – 23
Managed a $40M+ digital-asset portfolio through a bear market — launched its staking program and grew its value.
Med IDCo-founder · 2020
Co-founded a privacy-first COVID-19 contact-tracing nonprofit, and won the University of Washington's Buerk Center startup competition.
The record
II.Building with AI
I don't write code. I direct it.
Every product below was built by describing it — precisely, relentlessly — to AI agents, then reviewing what came back the way an editor reviews a draft. The skill isn't typing. It's knowing exactly what good looks like.
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The showcase
I. Founder · 2026 —
The inbox that talks back.
A modern inbox with a native chat layer and agents built in. Claim an address, bring your Gmail if you want it, sort mail into channels, and let agents draft, triage and reply with your approval.
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II. Founder · 2026
Ad blocker for your email.
Blocks spam, sales and marketing email in Gmail. It came first — and Soda Road was built on its plumbing.
GmailAI triage
Also built
III.Travels
To know a place, go and stand in it.
Every arc on the globe leaves from Seattle, and every one of them comes home.
North America
Vancouver·Portland·San Francisco·Los Angeles·Austin·Nashville·New York
Europe
Reykjavík·London·Cardiff·Edinburgh·Paris·Amsterdam·Berlin·Munich·Copenhagen·Oslo·Stockholm·Riga·Warsaw·Kraków·Kyiv·Bucharest·Budapest·Prague·Vienna
Asia
Singapore·Hong Kong·Beijing·Tokyo
Drag to turn · arcs from Seattle
IV.History
History is the only laboratory we have.
I read it for structure: how civilizations are founded, how they peak, and how the spirit drains out of forms that go on standing. Thomas Cole painted the whole cycle in five canvases in 1836.
Apollonian, Faustian, Promethean. The ambition is to turn eternal recurrence into an ascending spiral.
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
The statesmen
The theorists
V.The land
Between the volcanoes and the sea.
Cascadia is a bioregion before it is anything else: rain forest and basalt, salmon rivers and a chain of volcanoes from Garibaldi to Lassen. Its closest analogue in history is the Northern Song — small figures in vast landscapes, hydraulic engineering, a plural economy.
Tacoma — an early name for Rainier, from the Lushootseed təqʷubəʔ
Articles of the land
VI.Philosophy
Five convictions, held as a lens for seeing the world rather than a doctrine to recite. They are about land, building, institutions, beauty, and ascent.
Tenet I
“Sacred forest first, civic structure second.”
Before Romulus there was Evander, who came out of Arcadia and founded a town on the Palatine. Arcadia is Rome's upstream origin — and ours. The land comes first, and everything we build answers to it.
Tenet II
“Build as proof.”
A civic republic in the line of Hamilton, Lincoln and Roosevelt, always framed as restoration: service honoured, merit trusted, and public works as the evidence that the settlement holds.
Tenet III
“Whoever decides, bears it.”
Extraction happens wherever a decision-maker is decoupled from the future consequences of the decision. Good institutions tie them back together.
Tenet IV
“The song playing during ordinary life the founding made possible.”
Verdant monumentalism: patina-prone stone, planted armatures, water as a patina engine — buildings and cities that grow more beautiful as they age.
Tenet V
“Apotheosis and resilience.”
Civilizations cycle from Pathos to Ethos to Logos and back again. The work is to turn that recurrence into an ascending spiral — and, one day, to carry it off-world.
VII.Goals
Make Soda Road the substrate agents run on.
Slack's shape, email's substance — any model, any harness.
Write the founding epic.
An Aeneid for Cascadia, and a children's series told figure by figure.
Build a Cascadian Monticello.
A house on the land, with the mountain in view.
Back the builders.
Energy, space, robotics — the next decade's hard things.
The last is kept by the clock.
Pl. VI — Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1842 · National Gallery of Art, Washington
