I don’t talk about my background on here often, so I figured I’d give a breakdown for some context on me! I’m incredibly lucky to have grown up in a very entrepreneurial family. I have a lot of fond memories of helping out with the family businesses from a very young age! When I was a teenager, we started ramping up our family lifestyle and travel blog. We traveled 150+ days a year from 2013 to 2019, filmed videos, wrote a lot, and worked with a ton of incredible companies. It was amazing (exhausting too, but so amazing). From 2017-ish to 2022, we ran a program where we taught other people to blog! This was my first foray into online education and community building. I spent pretty much 24/7 teaching and advising students in our Facebook group (remember the good old days of Facebook groups?). It’s incredibly rewarding to have the opportunity to nurture a big community and to help members of that community become really successful. In 2021, my dad "stumbled" into land investing. He started building up a business around it, and then I got interested and decided to join in! I had so much fun working in land that I decided to co-found another land investment company with my sister. We 10xed our investment that year, which I’m still pretty proud of. Then we got a little tired of competing with our own dad, haha, so I rejoined his company and started leading deal evaluation. This was so much fun. Land deals have so many moving pieces, and it’s an absolute blast to put the puzzle together and be able to see the value of a deal clearly. I still absolutely love evaluating deals! I also started mentoring others on land investment through another high-ticket program and community that we started. I still consider one of my favorite accomplishments to be when I gave a piece of advice that ended up adding $50k to the profit total of a student’s first-ever deal. He was sold on investing after that, haha. Last year, my dad and I also expanded into a renewable energy (utility-scale battery energy storage system development) startup called Sunland America. We raised $895k and made some great hires! I’ve taken an advisory position in the company at this point while I build, and it’s still going strong! I’ve built a ton over the past year (hardware, software, everything I can), won five hackathons, hosted events, attended events, consulted for some great companies, and I’m really just seeing where this all takes me. I'm not quite sure what the future holds, honestly. Whatever it is, I can't wait :)

I wired a real slot machine into Claude Code and now I have to hit the jackpot to approve tool calls Here's how it works: - I load the machine with tokens, and pull the lever - A webcam watches the machine and detects the moment each reel stops - Template matching reads the 9 symbols off the reels - The outcome sets Claude's permissions for that prompt: 🔔🔔🔔 = approve , 7⃣7⃣7 = YOLO for the next 5 prompts, no matches = read-only - It runs on the Claude Agent SDK, in a TUI modeled after Claude Code. And every prompt requires that I play the real slot machine!

Codex on the Nintendo Switch :) The Switch is running Switchroot L4T Ubuntu 24.04, and the ChatGPT/Codex Linux desktop app officially supports Ubuntu 24.04 on ARM64 via a .deb package. So the only mod needed was for the Switch itself!