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venturesthe operating portfolio

One person. Several systems.

The day job is leading AI engineering. Everything below is built, run, and maintained on top of it.

Thrive Culture Media

thrivecmd.com ↗

A media brand built on specificity. Opinionated writing across five verticals, run entirely on Notion and Super.so.

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Thrive Culture Media home page across the five verticals, on a laptop.

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thrivecmd.com — notion + super.so
techEssays on tools, workflows, industry dynamics, and AI.musicAlbum showcases and deep dives, written in first person.sportsAnalysis and fandom across five sub-brands.Gridiron Surge · Hightops & Headbands · One Sixty Two · The Birdie Beat · Apex ChicaneryspaceMissions and astronomy.Ignition Protocol · NuminousfilmReviews and essays anchored to specific scenes and choices.

zckr.dev

zckr.dev ↗

AI engineering playground. What's being built now, what shipped, what died trying.

ActivityNow BuildingLabShippedNotesGraveyard
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zckr.dev activity feed: what is being built now, what shipped, what died trying.

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zckr.dev — the playground

collect.

About the app →

A personal cataloging app for iPhone and iPad. No accounts, no servers, private by design.

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collect. on iPhone: the catalog grid, an item detail, and the stats view.

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collect. — iphone + ipad

Homegrown Infrastructure

Proxmox, RAID arrays, Linux LXCs, enterprise networking at home. The zero-guardrails test bench behind everything else.

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The homelab rack: Proxmox nodes, RAID array, switching, cabling as it actually is.

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the rack — proxmox, raid, enterprise networking