Solo founder · builder · maker of too many things
I build apps and businesses, write worlds, run games, and learn hard things in 30-day sprints. Here are a few of mine — scroll through, and let's build the next one together.
the worlds↓
The fastest honest path to a new language — one expertly-ordered deck, real native audio, spaced repetition that does the thinking for you. I taught myself Japanese to A1 in ~20 focused hours with this method, then spent a year building the app that strips out every ounce of the friction that makes people quit.
It started with a fantasy world I dreamt up as a kid and faked my way into publishing as a novel at 14. The worldbuilding never left. Now it's a dark epic in progress — The Swords of Darkness — and a homebrew D&D world I run with frameworks I've spent years refining.
A camera, a single 23mm prime, golden hour. I shoot portraits, fits, and the cities I live in — a month or two at a time. It's the visual half of the same brain that obsesses over color grading and type.
I went to CMU, and I still think the best schools teach you to pass exams, not to actually understand things. I'm building courses from the ground up for real learning — math, statistical, and computational thinking — the way I wish someone had taught me.
Balatro proved roguelike deckbuilders are magic — so what happens when you do that to dice? I'm designing one to find out. Same itch as the D&D frameworks and the board game I'm building: take a system apart, find the fun, build it back better.
My favorite thing might just be ideating and organizing — roughly a hundred and sixty app, game, business and product ideas in my notes, and a habit of turning the best ones into real, shipped things. Weave (my mom lost 17 lbs with it), a metronome that actually feels good, a tool to find when a show gets good.
I pick a skill and go all-in for 30 days. Japanese to A1 in ~20 focused hours. Tone-deaf to singing from memory in one month. Badminton, YouTube, shipping. I research where common wisdom is wrong first, then build the shortest honest path.
Explore the rest
The work above is a few current projects. This is the fuller map — eight overlapping sides of the same person. Each one has a deep page, and each says both what I've done and what I'd love to do next. Pull on whichever thread is also yours.
Someday
Through the lens
Portraits, fits, and the cities I've lived in — Osaka, Tokyo, Kōyasan, Budapest, Lisbon, Nagpur. One camera, a single prime, natural light, graded by hand.
Writing
Distinct from the work above — ideas, not portfolio. Read the writing →
And some things I do purely for myself — painting like no one will ever see it, building and painting Gundam kits, singing in the mornings, the occasional cosplay. No goal. Just the doing.
Let's build something
Collaborators, co-conspirators, friends. If any of these worlds is also yours — or you just want to scheme — say hi. The best things in my life started as a five-hour first conversation with a stranger.
