01A few true things
I burned out, so I moved to Seoul
Microsoft and a startup left me fried, though I love Seattle and miss my friends there. Korea was the reset: four years of full-time Korean at Yonsei, fintech on the side, a culture worth learning properly. I still study the language now.
Everything happens to EDM
Lifting, cycling, running, hiking, camping, coding: all of it, one soundtrack. Rezz, Illenium, Above & Beyond on rotation. I grew up playing club soccer and the Olympic Development Program; my soccer trading engine, you may notice below, did not inherit the talent.
Mina, mostly
A Bernedoodle, born on Valentine's Day 2026 and amazing. Also: I love cooking, as long as it is HelloFresh. Directions I can follow, no leftovers, and no grocery store.
What I'm building now→Talk is cheap.
Proof is queryable.
02Receipts
Favorites,
with receipts.
Queried September 2026
- 133,170
- plays on record
- 7,346
- hours of listening
- 1,427
- hours in 2017 — 3.9 a day
Not memory — query results, re-read on a schedule.
The full listening ledger→14,038 plays on 309 of 365 days. Loudest: November 18, 211 plays.
Favorite artist
Above & Beyond
1,537 plays and 98.5 hours, the most of anyone across 12 years of listening history. The gap to second place is the verdict.
Favorite song
Shelter — Porter Robinson
My most-played actual song, at 157 plays. The literal all-time number one is a track called Ghostly Voices — Horror Sound Effect, 479 plays, every one of them in 2019. I have no defensible explanation, and the database refuses to forget.
Artist of the year
Rezz, currently
By play count within each year: Purity Ring '16, Zeds Dead '17, Above & Beyond '18, Ultimate Horror Sounds '19, Above & Beyond '20, Above & Beyond '21, Rezz '22, AK '23, San Holo '24, John Summit '25, and Rezz leads '26 so far.
Gym
1,615 workouts logged
Since April 2018. These days it is lifting most mornings plus a structured running plan, all of it soundtracked by the artists above. The dip is 2023, and the receipts principle cuts both ways.
Running
1,171 miles on record
411 runs with real distance since 2018. 2025 alone was 464 miles on a structured plan; 2023 was 5 runs total. Average pace is not published because run/walk intervals make the aggregate a lie.
The bike era
2,297 miles, 2018–2022
121 rides, and then in 2022 the log goes quiet. The bike is fine. We just have not spoken since. If the log resumes, this card will know before I admit it.
Coffee
Culture Coffee, Salt Lake City
Top of my places log, verdict: must return. The log is young, so the title is winnable if you have a recommendation.
Favorite movie
WALL·E
The one answer here that is declared rather than queried: nothing instruments movie taste, so this is on my word, August 2026. A tidy robot who keeps his systems running alone for years, collects what matters, and falls hard for something newer and shinier. No idea why it resonates — though two of my systems, Auto and Eve, are now named out of it, so the resonance is apparently load-bearing.
Backdrop: the artists at work — a Seedance render, not a measurement. No receipt exists for that one.
03The invitation
Build something
that runs without you.
Type it here — it lands on my dashboard and pages my phone.