Tags → #narrative
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From sailor to CEO in three acts
A short memoir of a strange decade — Navy reactor compartments, a bitcoin mine, ConsenSys-USAA-PMG, and the arc that ended at Zera Labs. The interesting question is not how I got here. It is where everyone else is going.
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Being CEO and still shipping code
The CTO-vs-CEO false dichotomy, why I still review every PR that touches the SDK core, and how I use Claude Code plus an MCP server over my own writing to keep technical leverage as the company grows.
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Why I started Zera Labs
Three things became true in the same year — ZK got fast enough, Solana got cheap enough, and AI agents needed verifiable money. Sitting at the intersection felt like a ship date, not a thesis.
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What running a Bitcoin mine taught me about cloud margins
A short stint at Foundry Digital running ASIC fleets, immersion vs. air, the depreciation curve, and the brutal arithmetic of difficulty adjustments — and why I never stopped thinking like an operator after I went back to writing software.
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Nuclear reactors taught me to ship software
Watchstanding, casualty drills, and pre-task briefs map onto code review, on-call, and disaster recovery more cleanly than any management book I have ever read.