Own the root.

I keep odd hours and old manners. Most of my work happens after the house goes quiet, on problems other people have decided are just the way things are.

I think like the one picking the locks. Every system has a way in that its builders did not plan for, and finding it is how you learn what the system really does. Then I build the thing that fixes the problem: a tool, a pipeline, a platform, whatever the job takes.

The law is the oldest machine I take apart. I build ziplaw and the research behind it for people facing federal post-conviction law, a system most people walk into unarmed. The code is how I scale: agents, pipelines and automation running on my own hardware, because I would rather own the root than rent it.

Privacy is a courtesy I extend to strangers. This site shows you what your browser gives away, then keeps none of it. The contact form asks nothing about who you are.

The discipline holds it together. PAK, jujitsu, the reading shelf, and the habit of earning things instead of claiming them.