The Solo-Founder Bottleneck

The absolute heaviest burden of running a media factory solo isn’t the daily grind; it’s the relentless barrage of new ideas when your bandwidth is already maxed out. Building automated systems that run like clockwork has taught me how to sweat out the details, but it hasn’t taught me how to turn off my brain. … Read more

The Ghost of Heartland Rock in Davao

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Sixteen years in Davao City. The heat hasn’t changed since I landed in 2010, but the tools of my trade certainly have. Today was spent inside the guts of Gemini Lyria 3. I wasn’t just testing code. I was building a ghost. I’ve developed a persona named Jack Rust. He’s a fictional 80s-90s country rock … Read more