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Pulled 26 months of travel data from Monarch Money. Found a 93% spending decline — from $19,847 in multi-destination vacations (2024) to $2,066 in local road trips (2025–2026). The data confirmed what I already felt: two kids changed everything. Also found the gas spending increase perfectly mirrored the vacation drop.

Reconstructed every show I've attended since 2007 from Spotify history, Google Calendar, and purchase records. 178 events. The data tells a life story.

Queried iMessage SQLite directly, merged with Facebook Messenger exports, Google Voice records, and call logs for 71 contacts. Found that my top 5 relationships = 36% of all message volume. Also found the 'late summer dropout' — 4 contacts who went quiet mid-2025 at the same time.

Inspired by those Facebook logo decomposition posts — an architect in a studio, compass lines radiating from a mark, a quote about 'primal shapes.' Made one for a friend's company and turned him into an '80s designer named David Feldman. Ruling pen, compass, Letraset and Rapidograph ink on vellum. April 12, 1985.

Hypnotic Tuareg guitar loop with a melancholic-but-defiant vibe. No lyrics, no concept — just a sound I wanted to exist. Turned out to be one of the better things the pipeline has made.

Ruby knocked over her bottle mid-feed at 2am. Instead of crying about it I wrote her a song. Funky reassurance for a baby who spills things. She can't read yet but I think she gets it.

First day as VP of Strategy & Analytics at Lahzo. Day one objective — understand the data flywheel. Long-term objective — build AI systems that make the company smarter faster than any competitor can copy. Let's go.

Ruby Baby in the style of Dion's 50th anniversary reissue — full orchestral treatment, doo-wop backing vocals, and Ruby's name smuggled into every hook.

This family stickers everything. Roobubbs (Ruby), Dean Machine, Vote Dean, kids riding a whale, kids on an otter, Dean on a shark, and a shark eating a waffle because Dean asked for one. Water bottles, laptops, the stroller — if it's a flat surface, it gets a sticker.

Built Lil' Mimic Studio so I could turn my kids into cartoon characters. Here they are. Obviously.

Built an enterprise-grade multi-channel AI gateway that routes messages across Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and more — with fallback strategies, plugin architecture, and multi-model routing. Started as a weekend project, became my daily AI infrastructure.

Dean has strong opinions about footwear. This is the Chromeo-style disco version of those opinions.

The remix nobody asked for. She approves.

A lullaby. She didn't sleep.

A road trip song for a family that takes road trips to other families.

Every Saturday deserves its own soundtrack.

Dean helps with everything. This song is about that. Obviously it's swing.

An AI-generated bop about Ruby's pink pajama dance parties. Made with Suno. She does actually dance.

When you rarely have free time and have kids, this is how you stay connected — Dad Squad Weekends with a voting system and AI-generated posters to get everyone hyped. Botanical Gardens, MARTA Adventures, Fernbank, History Center. Kill two birds: kids have fun, dads stay close.

Generated a retro-futurist concert poster for a fictional SF show — Deep Dish, Carl Craig, Ray Volpe on the bill. The neon + brutalist combo felt right. Would attend.

Built a multi-model pipeline: Suno for the track, Imagen 3 for character art, Veo for video refinement, FFmpeg for assembly. Output — a 30-second 1974 Italian TV variety show parody with a gibberish-funk track. Three AI models, one ridiculous video.

Decided to build a proper pipeline for making AI songs for Dean and Ruby. Prompt engineering → Suno → cover art → YouTube. The goal — a personal discography for my kids before they're old enough to be embarrassed by it.

Built this mid-job-search when I realized I was spending more time analyzing job posts than applying. Swipe right if it feels energizing. Left if it feels draining. Simple filter for a complicated decision.

Three weeks mapping every film that influenced Kill Bill and every film it inspired. 200+ nodes, TMDB API, React + Three.js. What started as "I wonder if I can" turned into a proper obsession.

Morningside Place is our neighborhood — 75 units, 25 kids under five. The crew rides bikes together, popsicle parties almost every day after school in the spring. This is the squad rendered as Simpsons characters on the front stoop.

AI-generated tarot cards for the family. The Architect of Joy (fire-spinner dad), The Queen of Insight (serene mom), The Child of Wonders (Dean chasing butterflies). Accurate readings.

Hit 1,000 AI-generated characters in Lil' Mimic Studio. Started as a weekend project to turn photos of Dean into cartoon characters. Now it has a Tickle Monster game and comic strip generator. The app grows faster than the toddler.

Dean as a sticker. Tongue out, eyes wide, absolutely feral — accurate.

Made a sticker of the fam in the hot tub. This is peak suburban parenting content and I have no regrets.

Day trips deserve concert posters. Creating these for family and friend adventures makes the plans feel special and gets people hyped in the group chat. This one: pumpkin patch with the Greenamyres, full rock tour aesthetic.

Graybie curls up like a croissant. That's just how she sleeps. The Renaissance portrait came first, then the obvious next step: a scientific diagram proving the croissant-to-cat metamorphosis. La Metamorphose de Graybie.

The closer shot. Same Dad Squad pair — this one ended up as our group chat avatar for a while. AI illustration that actually captured the vibe.

Generated this comic-style playground scene for me and a friend — two dads, two strollers, full Dad Squad energy. The orange beanie is definitely me.

Built and ran a monthly AI intelligence brief for Equifax leadership. Python + Perplexity pipeline fetched and scored 60+ articles per edition. Added ElevenLabs TTS narration in edition 5. 6 editions shipped covering AI in FS, model governance, and agentic commerce.

I have a giant weighted blanket that Dean and I play with — he gets underneath and calls it the Heavy Cave. He has to fight his way out from under fifteen pounds of fleece and destiny. This noir comic captures the nightly ritual perfectly. HEAVYYYYY CAAAAVVE!

Asked ChatGPT to turn me into a coloring book page. Flannel shirt, beard, slightly skeptical expression — nailed it.

The actual bedtime routine, mapped as a flowchart. Dinner → won't put on clothes → NO → potty → NO → teeth brushed → Ruby wakes up 3 times → watch Friends slides → toys are stuck. Every path is real.

Built and maintain a PARA-structured Obsidian vault as my personal operating system — 7 directories, daily notes, project tracking, people profiles, session logs, and a growing library of AI-assisted research. The vault is writable from Claude Code, queryable by agents, and grows with every conversation.

10-episode AI comic series about Dean's greatest hits — IKEA bedtime burrito, firetruck noir, snack negotiation tactics, lego family drama. Every strip: 100% based on real events.

36 hours. 29,029 vertical feet. The equivalent of climbing Everest — on a ski mountain, in laps, on no sleep. Filed under "things that sounded reasonable in January." One of the hardest and most clarifying things I've done.