A life measured in
miles, deals, and pages.
Triathlete. Man of faith. Avid reader. NYC broker since 2009 — my own firm since 2014. Now I design, code, and ship software in the open. The journey, documented daily.
How I got here
- 2009 Licensed in New York. Manhattan residential — cold calls, open houses, a market learned block by block.
- 2014 Founded my own firm. Broker to broker-owner. The business taught discipline; the books taught the rest.
- Daily Swim. Bike. Run. Triathlon keeps everything honest. Every session on Strava, live, below.
- Always Faith and the library. Scripture, biographies, craft — where the miles and deals get their meaning.
- Now Shipping software. Vibe coder, designer, data architect — building this platform with AI, in public.
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We discuss the recent acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate by Compass for $1.6 billion in a
Attendees came for the kitchen or love island…
If you’ve got a backpack and dreams… pick one.
My bike wants closure and quads know this isn’t Zwift.
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Vibe coder. Designer.
Data architect.
This site, its writing engine, the training feeds — designed and built by me, pairing with AI. The business side lives at Botensten, where builders learn to own their software instead of renting it.
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New essays on health, money, faith, and habits publish here continuously. Free to read, no funnel.
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SEO leads close at a 14.6% rate. Traditional outbound methods close at just 1.7%. That's not a marginal gap—it's a different category of lead entirely.
The reason is intent. When someone searches a question and finds your content, they've already identified themselves as someone with a problem you solve. They came to you. That changes every conversation that follows.
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