Surfacing depth.
Sailor, diver, builder, teacher. I help people build connection with themselves and one another, and develop the value-aligned systems that allow businesses and individuals to reduce overhead so they can spend more time with what matters most to them. Compassionately practical.
Current Focus
What I'm building now: tools for the trade I work in, a small shirt brand about needs, and a holistic app for training, nutrition and health that I made for myself.
The operations app for hull cleaning and dive service businesses. Log the job at the dock in about a minute, and that one entry becomes the owner's report, the invoice, the service history and the payroll record.
I use it every day to run my own hull-cleaning business. It schedules and routes the day, saves logs with no signal, and bills the card on file the same day. You can also delegate boats to other trusted divers: the boat lands on their schedule, they log the visit in the same app, and it goes onto payroll at the agreed share.
Free for up to 15 boats. Pro from $49 a month.
Wearable reminders that your feelings are valid and your needs matter. T-shirts with messages from connected communication, printed on demand.
Ten designs inspired by Nonviolent Communication, from "Feelings Are Messengers" to "Mostly Giraffe" and "Curiosity Over Control." I built the store end to end: catalog, Stripe checkout and Printful fulfillment.
Visit needsarenormal.comA holistic approach to training, nutrition and body. Workouts on iPhone and Apple Watch, meal planning, food and what it costs, and Apple Health data, with a coach that sees the whole picture.
A personal build. It isn't on the App Store, and the data is stored on a server I run at home.
Log sets on iPhone or Apple Watch. A push/pull/legs program with automatic progression, a plate calculator, supersets and a rest timer. The coach reviews every session and adjusts the loads.
A chart for every lift, estimated one-rep max and personal-record detection, built from the logged sets.
The coach plans meals from what's in the kitchen and what's left of the day's protein and calories, writes prep checklists, and builds shopping lists that skip what's on hand, comparing prices by protein per dollar.
Log a meal from a photo of a label or a plate, or in a sentence. Calories and protein track against daily targets, and every food carries its cost per serving.
A companion app syncs Apple Health (sleep, heart rate, weight, workouts) to the home server. Rio saves each workout back to Apple Health.
Morning and evening cards in the app (the day's workout, meals and prep) and an Ask Rio chat, from a coach built on Claude. A weekly check-in is next.
In use: part of my routine, mostly through chatting with the coach. In testing: built and being tried out, including the app's own screens for it.
Tools for connection, trust, and craft. Plus the occasional experiment.
The operations app for hull cleaning and dive service businesses. Log the job at the dock in about a minute, and the report, invoice and service history follow from that one entry. Free for up to 15 boats.
Marine
T-shirts with messages from connected communication, printed on demand. Ten designs inspired by Nonviolent Communication.
Connection & CraftA holistic app for training, nutrition and body. Workouts, meal planning, food cost and Apple Health data come together with a coach built on Claude. A personal build.
Health
A guided self-connection practice inspired by Nonviolent Communication. Walk through observations, feelings, needs, and strategies with coaching at each step. Private, no account needed.
Connection & Craft
A philosophical thought experiment. You're given absolute power to fix the world, then questioned about every decision until you confront the cost of good intentions.
Connection & Craft
Resource hub for navigating the end of relationships with intention. Audio resources, guided rituals, and a conscious closure process.
Connection & Craft
"Boredom is just unappreciated serenity." An interactive guide to how dopamine works, and why understanding it can help you reclaim your attention and calm.
Connection & Craft
Structured workflow practices for AI coding assistants, covering productivity, finance, health, and more. Grounded in frameworks like GTD and Nonviolent Communication.
Connection & Craft
Site for a men's group that meets weekly in the East Bay and online. Brotherhood, purpose, and accountability. Free to join.
Community
A short list of groups and classes for women in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and online, each one recommended by someone who knows it.
Community
A directory of hundreds of Bay Area marine service providers, from hull cleaners to riggers. Search by service or describe the problem, ask the AI boat assistant, request quotes, and read the boating guides.
Marine
Underwater hull cleaning at Berkeley Marina, with an instant estimate by boat size and online booking. Part of my vessel management work on the Bay.
Marine
Video producer portfolio with HLS streaming. Hover-to-preview, click-to-play with audio, and fullscreen support.
Client Work
Website for a maker of custom inductors and transformers. Custom geometries, mixed runs, and no minimum order.
Client Work
Website for a Bay Area garden design company. Smart contact modal with device-aware messaging options.
Client Work
Open-source integrations connecting AI assistants to Strava, Gmail, Calendar, and more. Building blocks for productivity.
Tools
macOS app that rescues podcast downloads from Apple's cryptic storage, renaming files with human-readable episode titles.
Tools
Builds the Burning Man Perimeter watch schedule. Leads rate every shift, an optimizer builds a fair, fully covered schedule, and admins publish it. Used for the 2026 burn.
Tools
The iPhone app Perimeter leads run their shifts from: roll call, pairing, briefings, trucks, meals, handoffs and accountability, all working with no signal. Used on shifts at the 2026 burn.
Tools
Tongue-in-cheek web tool that injects absurdist phrases into your text to "confuse AI language models." Community feed included.
FunAvailable for Select Projects
I take on a few projects at a time. If you're building something that connects people to what they care about, we should talk.
For nearly 20 years I've taught sailing on San Francisco Bay. Docking, offshore passage making, everything in between. The part that lights me up is watching someone go from white-knuckled to confident in the space of an afternoon. Breaking complex skills into steps someone can actually use.
I build the same way. A marketplace that connects boat owners with trusted service providers. A guided practice for working through conflict with compassion. A mobile app that turns a 60-second voice memo into a professional invoice. Different tools, same job: make the hard thing approachable.
I'm also drawn to long distances. Solo sailing to Hawaii. A thousand miles on the Appalachian Trail. Cross-country motorcycling. Long mountain bike rides through Marin and Southern Utah. Sustained effort over time strips away everything that doesn't matter.
I enjoy meeting people building interesting things. Whether you want to collaborate, ask questions, or just say hello - I'd love to hear from you.
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