Field Notes

I lost my full-time job as an Infrastructure Engineer in January 2026. Since then I’ve been building software, helping local non-profits and small businesses untangle their technology, and day-trading options. (Besides doing shadow & soul work with my therapist, raising my kids, and going to Pilates classes (opens in a new tab)). I’ve given myself a rough goal of six months to make self-employment sustainably pay my family’s bills.

Field Notes is the story of how I’m doing it, and what I learn along the way. You’ll see what works and what doesn’t. I’ll share the tools I use, the systems I build, and the people I meet. Hopefully you’ll also see how I make it all into a sustainable business that supports my family and my community.

What you get

• Content on building and selling small software & working for yourself
• Stories from my life and learning. This one's a blank cheque I'm writing to myself to stay out of any pigeonholes.
• The other interests, because they’re the same interest. I’m a musician and a producer; I trade options; I'm into Jungian psychodynamics and psychoanalytical therapy. I like a nice bike ride.
• No schedule. If I settle into a rhythm, cool. But for now, I share when it's right.
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