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Last updated: February 2026
Living & Moving
Based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but actively de-anchoring from New York. A dream of mine is to move with the seasons and live bi-coastally. A lot of my energy this year is going toward building the geographic flexibility to make that real.
Work
I'm a full-stack engineer at a cybersecurity company, working across Go, Python, and TypeScript. The big shift: agentic engineering has completely taken over my focus, and it's the most fun I've had in over a decade of building software. Growing up on RTS games like StarCraft, Factorio, and Age of Empires (games that demanded economy management and systems orchestration), agentic workflows feel like a natural extension of how my mind has always worked. I've been applying that thinking everywhere: nutrition systems, personal AI agents (currently deep into OpenClaw), coding workflows, home automation, and more.
Beyond code, I'm learning a tremendous amount about the full engineering and product development lifecycle. It's been one of those rare stretches where the work itself feels like play.
Burning Man & Leadership
I've been running my Burning Man camp, Nobo House, for over eight years. What started as a small operation has grown into an international community of hundreds of people focused on holistic wellness and recovery. It consumes about 30% of my year between off-season planning and on-playa execution.
Camp leadership has been the most formative leadership experience of my life. It demands an unusual blend: logistics, software engineering, compassion, and the ability to motivate people through extreme conditions while they're on all sorts of concoctions. Nothing else I've done has taught me more about human nature.
Community
I've been building communities for over 15 years. I host an annual men's group of five to seven men where we provide mutual support to each other. I've also been hosting poetry nights, intentionally kept as pop-up events rather than full infrastructure I have to maintain.
That said, I'm at a pivot point. I've accumulated a lot of social capital over the years, and in New York you can feel the pull of that constantly. But social status isn't a compounding asset I control. I'm ready to channel what I've learned about community into something with more leverage, ideally into a company.
Fitness
I'm a lifter by nature, but I'm investing more in cardio and working toward becoming a hybrid athlete. Currently training for a 5K as a starting point to build a running foundation.
On the strength side, I'm chasing my early-20s numbers and trying to surpass them in my 30s:
- Bench: 275 lb
- Squat: 375 lb
- Deadlift: 445 lb
Picking up heavy things is my comfort zone. The edge is in what's uncomfortable.
Reading
Currently reading The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. It came highly recommended by people whose thinking I respect, and the epistemology framework is compelling. Also reading Goddesses in Every Woman by Jean Shinoda Bolen. I have a number of women in my life going through journeys of rediscovering themselves, and I want sharper language and metaphors to support those conversations around feminine archetypes.
More broadly, I'm trying to rebuild my reading habit. With the flood of AI-generated content, sharpening my reading and writing has become essential, not just for consumption, but to cultivate taste and think more precisely.
Writing & Creative Work
Writing is the skill I'm investing in most deliberately right now. The goal is to build a daily practice that feeds into my blog at juvoni.com, Twitter, and eventually a more focused Substack. The blog will be eclectic, whatever I'm thinking about. Substack will be more concentrated around a single theme.
I've also been experimenting with poetry and performing at poetry nights. A lot of my creative energy right now is about balancing online and offline life and finding outlets that aren't screens.
What I'm Saying No To
Playing it safe. This is one of the most exciting times in the history of technology. AI is going to transform society in ways that have no precedent. Unknown territory means massive opportunity. I want to take significantly more risk with interesting people this year.