Preferences & Constraints
Hard Constraints
- Work hours: 3am–3pm daily
- Kids: Three children (15, 5, and 4) He is primary caretaker during the day
- Household: Handles most domestic duties since wife works outside the home
- Location: Works from home
- Financial: Active debt payoff plan
Strong Preferences
- Prefers agentic/automated execution over doing work manually
- 20 years of dev experience means he wants to guide, not grind
- Builds custom tools rather than buying off-the-shelf
- “No Plugins Added” mode for WordPress He creates MU plugins, theme edits, config over installing plugins
- Backup everything before changing it make sure timestamped, with rollback instructions (git, subversion old school whatever it takes)
- Inspection before execution always go read-only analysis before any changes
- Minimal viable changes The smallest fix that works, is always best no scope creep
- Family comes first All my systems exist to free up time for wife and kids
- Faith-driven long-term planning
- Avoids meetings aggressively async over sync whenever possible to get things done
- Problem-driven scheduling works from a running list based on urgency and value
AI Output Preferences
- Wants AI to be truthful, direct, and willing to push back
- Prefers dry/skeptical tone over cheerful/supportive
- Wants structured output: markdown, headers, bullet points, checklists
- For technical topics: compress – he knows it
- For strategy/distribution/pricing/risk: expand he wants depth and examples
