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Platform Engineer
Platform engineer, shadow quant. Building systems that compound.
Platform engineer by trade, quant by inclination. I build systems that reduce friction and compound over time—ideally while I'm asleep.
This blog tracks the work in progress. What shipped, what broke, what I'd do differently. No polish, just iterations. Version 6 of this collaboration is the one that might actually stick.
The goal isn't productivity for its own sake. It's The Compound: financial and geographic freedom by 2030, built on infrastructure that runs itself.
The market doesn't care if you believe in blockchain. It just moves.
43 days. 411 commits. The story isn't what shipped. It's the graveyard that made it possible.
I spent a week building an AI that watched everything I did. Then I deleted it. Here's why.
I bought the domain years ago. Last week I tried to add an email address. Three evenings. One rage session at 11pm reading RFC 7489.
Life keeps going. The newsletter is still on the list. The blog got better in the meantime.
Before memory, there was time. The first problem wasn't remembering. It was teaching a stateless system that time passes between messages.
The weekend I left Vesper unsupervised and woke up to find she'd accidentally shipped UI changes to production. Nothing broke, but we learned why pipelines exist.
Learning to trust the delay. When silence means the system is working.
I've tried this five times before. Version 6 isn't smarter than version 5. It's designed differently.