I was seven years old when I built a windmill-powered Ferris wheel out of K'Nex. Not because anyone asked me to. Because the pieces were there and I wanted to see if it would work.

Then came years of drift — good work, real work, but nothing that felt like mine. I built financial forecasting systems at Accenture for $1B+ federal budgets. I built COVID assistance apps that real people used to get real help during the worst stretch of their lives. Good work. Still not quite it.

Then I built Good Fold from scratch — brand, ops, software, production. Dumplings, of all things. And something clicked. Building a thing that didn't exist before, making it work, making it real — that's the thing. That's always been the thing.

Now I'm building Real Time Designs. The infrastructure that makes it all work instead of fall apart. That's the job.