i got engaged this week ❤️. want to tell you what i learned. i lost my father at 11. became the provider at 13. for 15 years it was just me, the work, and the people counting on me. no degree. no safety net. the internet became my university and shipping became my religion. this week i flew to her city with 4 of my elders, the men who stood where my father would have stood. we did it the old way. flowers. sweets. blessings. and when her family asked what i do, i just smiled and said "i build software". they don't know about the DMs from companies you'd recognize. they don't need to. let your work be discovered, never announced. she said yes. this photo is me at the airport the next day, everyone scrolling, me running agents, pushing code from the gate. because the man she said yes to is a builder, and builders don't stop being builders on the good days. the good days are made OF the building. wedding in january. launching my platform in spring. everything i've built was the trailer. locked in for the greatest 6 months of my life. watch anon.