// about
Who am I?
IT used to be weird and fun. I'm fixing that.
IT used to be weird and fun. People built things in their garages, named their servers after cartoon characters, and genuinely loved the craft. Somewhere along the way it became all business and SERIOUS. I'm fixing that.
After 26 years in cybersecurity, I started Mighty Penguin (www.mightypenguin.ai) because I wanted hardware that matched my energy — powerful enough for real red-team work, weird enough to make you smile when you pull it out of the box.
And the toys? I've always heard stay young at heart no matter how old you get. At the end of the day, I'm just a big kid at heart. Life's too short for boring.
// principles
How I think
Asymmetric bets only
I'm not interested in incremental improvements to existing systems. I look for the places where a small, precise action produces an outsized result. That's where leverage lives.
Speed is a strategy
Most people underestimate how much advantage comes from simply moving faster. Not recklessly — deliberately. Velocity compounds.
The lone operator wins
Large organizations optimize for consensus. I optimize for correctness. The best decisions are made by one person with full context, not a committee with partial information.
Build for the long game
Every company I start, every product I ship, every relationship I build — it's infrastructure for what comes next. I'm playing a game that doesn't end.
// connect
Want to connect?
I'm selective about my time. If you have something worth discussing, I want to hear it.
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