Four and a half years into Mantle. Four months into fatherhood.
Toronto. Updated October 2026.
Building
Mantle, four and a half years in. Most of my time is now spent on our social media presence and scaling Mantle Equity, our AI-native cap table platform.
I’m deep in Zapier and Claude Cowork. My Cowork setup runs over 10 workstations that help me manage finance, billing, customer success, office management, social media, recruiting, and more.
Learning
How to get LLMs to say less. Still a work in progress.
Coffee cupping, starting with James Hoffmann’s Fermentation Project: one Guatemalan lot, fermented four ways, tasted side by side.
Home
Our son is four months old. He’s a slightly different person every week, and watching it happen is the best part of my day. The nights are long and the weeks are short.
Tinkering
- Reconfiguring DNS for this site.
- Moved our photo library to Immich, self-hosted on my homelab.
- Building a retro game library with custom firmware on the Anbernic RG DS. Nintendo DS and 3DS for now.
- Latest macOS install: Clop, which shrinks images the moment I copy them.
Reading
- Daily Dad by Ryan Holiday
- Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
Listening
- My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri
- The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
- Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
- Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
- Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Music
Radiohead and King Krule, on repeat as always. Every so often, I listen through the entire TOOL discography in order, or Madvillain’s Madvillainy front to back.
New in rotation: Wand’s Perfume and Angine de Poitrine’s Vol. I & II.
Watching
Kyla Scanlon and Alex Falcone on YouTube.