Hey, I'm David.

I went to school for nursing. Good job on paper. Stable, respected, the kind of career nobody tells you to question.

I questioned it anyway.

Not because the work didn't matter. Because I'd never actually chosen it. I was running on defaults: other people's expectations, a reactive schedule, a life script I'd inherited without ever reading the fine print. The problem was never my circumstances. For years, the obstacle was me.

So I rebuilt from the operating system up

New habits, installed on purpose. A direction that was actually mine. Money that bought options instead of stuff. I taught myself to build, started shipping projects, and eventually helped my parents retire, which is still the achievement I'm proudest of.

Along the way I went deep into the FIRE world, saving aggressively, optimizing everything. Then I read Die With Zero and realized I'd over-corrected. I was so busy building the future that I'd stopped living in the present. Now I aim for balance: build wealth, and actually use it. (I even built a calculator to keep myself honest about it.)

Where I am now

I'm in Montreal, building more in a single weekend than I used to ship in a quarter, because AI turned out to be the most absurd accelerant I've ever touched. I'll say this clearly though, because it's the whole point: AI is the accelerant, not the hero. The e-bike still needs you to pedal. It multiplies whatever you bring to it. Bring shallow thinking, you get faster mediocrity. The human is still the one who decides what's worth building.

What I write about

Everything here lives under three pillars, with AI threaded through all of them: