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Welcome to the Outpost

meta introduction

There's a moment—somewhere between your third cup of coffee and the second Slack escalation of the morning—where you realize the skills you're using at work are the same ones you used last night convincing a twelve-year-old that homework is, in fact, not optional.

The Intersection

I manage a 13-person infrastructure team. I also manage a household where neurodivergence isn't the exception—it's the operating system. And here's the thing no one tells you: the Venn diagram between these two worlds is damn near a circle.

De-escalation? I use it in sprint retros and bedtime negotiations.

Phased rollouts? That's how we introduce new routines at home.

Monitoring and alerting? Let's just say I have dashboards for both.

Why "The Outpost"

Eris—the dwarf planet, not the goddess of chaos (though some days, the distinction is thin)—sits at the edge of our solar system. It's distant, a little rebellious, and officially classified as "not quite a planet."

That resonated.

This site is the outpost. A place to write about the overlap between managing systems and managing life. To share the shirts I design when my brain needs a creative outlet. To catalog the books and resources that came from years of figuring things out the hard way.

What You'll Find Here

  • The Dispatch: Essays on leadership, neurodivergent parenting, and the systems that connect them.
  • The Commissary: Curated merch designs—space-themed, niche humor, and the occasional deep cut.
  • The Library: Books and resources, including The Strategic Candidate Dossier.
  • The Dossier: My professional link tree and published work.

All of this goes to say: whether I'm debugging a datacenter or navigating a school IEP, the systems are different, but the heart is the same.

Welcome to the outpost.

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