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How my thinking evolved.

2026
May 2026
Life

The Karaoke Loophole That Paid For College

YC asked about hacking a non-computer system. My honest answer starts with a Vancouver karaoke bar, private-room bookings, and $1.6M+ in liquor revenue during Covid.

April 2026
Agentic Coding

My 2026 (Vibe)Coding Setup: Agent Operator Mode

Oh My ClaudeCode, Oh My Codex, Ralph loops, Aristotle, and the harness engineering habit that keeps turning agent mistakes into permanent fixes.

April 2026
Life

The Forged Failure Mentality: Why I Didn't Wake Up a Loser

Sometimes you win some, you lose some. Here is why failing an interview didn't make me wake up a loser, and what I am building next.

April 2026
Life

What I Would Do Differently If I Ever Build an Offshore Team Again

After the happier Vietnam office story, here is the postmortem: the office caught fire, the business failed, and these are the 3 lessons that cost me the most.

January 2026
AI × Real Estate

Opendoor's Silent Margin Killer (And How to Fix It)

Every time a seller accepts your offer, it means you probably overpaid. Congrats, your conversion rate might be evidence against you.

2025
December 2025
Life

Life Update 12/25: Failing, Flailing, and Accidental Dior Coffee

The autopsy of a year. Business closures, bureaucracy hell, a 365-day headache, and somehow winning free coffee on the one day I didn't need it.

November 2025
AI × Real Estate

You're Competing Against Yourself — And Losing

6 listings in one square mile. Same buyers. Each one making the others cheaper. Here's the algorithm that stops iBuyers from cannibalizing their own portfolio.

September 2025
Computer Vision

Segment Anything 3 Meets Depth Anything — Zero-Shot Scene Decomposition

SAM3 gives you masks. Depth Anything V3 gives you metric depth. Stack them and you get instance-level 3D from a single photo. Here's the pipeline and the math.

July 2025
AI × Operations

Your Scheduler Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know

"AC grinding noise" could be 45 min or 4 hours. A point estimate picks one. A distribution-aware model hedges the unpredictable jobs and reclaims the dead time.

June 2025
Life

I Opened an Office in Vietnam :D

I just got back from Vietnam. Somehow over the past year I helped my company open a physical office there, hire a team, trust a GM, and learn that context is heavier than payroll.

May 2025
AI × Real Estate

The Renovation Problem Nobody Talks About

Replace carpet, update kitchen, repaint, fix HVAC — or some subset. Each upgrade costs money, takes time, and generates value. Here's the algorithm that finds the optimal spend in milliseconds.

March 2025
SaaS × Trades

The No-Show Tax Nobody Invoices

A plumber's Tuesday has 6 slots. One no-show costs $250 in dead time. Overbooking recovers it — if you model cancellation probability per slot, not per day.

January 2025
SaaS × Trades

Your Quoting Process Has a 40% Mortality Rate

Most trade businesses close 30–40% of quotes. The other 60% die silently. Survival analysis tells you which quotes are still alive — and which ones to chase.

2024
November 2024
AI × Real Estate

The Seven Places Your Spread Leaks

The buy-sell spread isn't one number. It's seven. Most iBuyers only track three. Here's the decomposition that finds the margin you didn't know you were losing.

September 2024
AI × Real Estate

Know How Fast a House Will Sell Before You Buy It

Days-on-market isn't random. It's predictable from 12 features available at acquisition. Here's the liquidity score that tells you which homes will sit.

July 2024
Mathematical Modeling

Your P&L Is a Point Estimate (And It's Lying to You)

That $2.4M annual profit forecast? It's the mean of a distribution that includes scenarios where you lose $800K. Monte Carlo simulation shows you the full picture.