Writing about career development, smart buildings, DIY projects, and building things that actually work.
81,000 electrician openings per year. A 4-year apprenticeship pipeline that can't keep up. And we're worried AI will take our jobs? The real risk isn't displacement...it's standing still.
Elevation's building intelligence chat now knows your assessment scores, building profiles, and domain gaps — turning a reference tool into a context-aware advisor.
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After two years of presenting the Smart Building Maturity Model at Cisco Live, I finally turned the PowerPoint into a working application. It took one evening.
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How I built QuorumUX — an open-source tool that uses multi-model AI consensus to find UX issues in Playwright recordings for less than a coffee.
How I replaced six SaaS subscriptions with custom AI-built software over a single weekend — and why the application-layer SaaS model is dying.
Most career advice treats work like a math problem. But the real source of frustration is often an identity conflict — when success requires becoming someone you're not.
Building out the Future-Proof Workplaces Lounge, presenting the Smart Building Maturity Model, and a hundred selfies with people I'm genuinely glad to see.
48 beta users, 87% weekly return rate, and the data is pointing at something we didn't expect: visibility matters more than motivation.
Careers aren't built on promotions and pivots. They're built on small actions repeated daily — and the math proves it.
Most productivity tools optimize for output. MomentumEQ's beta users are teaching us that what people actually need is to see how daily actions connect to who they want to become.
The 3E Model (Education, Exposure, Experience) is the framework I use with every professional I coach. Most people over-index on one and wonder why they're stuck.
After presenting across BICSI, Cisco Live Amsterdam, and a dozen customer workshops, here's the framework we use to help building owners understand where they are and where they're going.
It's not laziness. It's not 'just how work is.' It's data — your gut telling you something's misaligned. And you can't optimize your way out of a values conflict.
My 1952 Craftsman is becoming a smart building testbed — five-zone HVAC, PoE-powered sensors, energy monitoring. When your day job is smart buildings, your house becomes the lab.
I installed a five-zone heat pump in my 1952 Craftsman. At work, I'm helping deploy Class 4 Fault Managed Power in commercial buildings. Turns out the skills aren't that different.
Peers, mentors, coaches, and sponsors. The 3E Model. Values hierarchies. These are the frameworks I come back to in every coaching conversation.
Ten years of building community through bike races. This past year has been the hardest — and the lessons apply far beyond cycling.
A packed BICSI masterclass, a partnership between Cisco and Panduit, and the beginning of a shift from AC to DC power distribution in commercial buildings.
I could just post on LinkedIn. But there's something different about having your own space — a place where the content isn't optimized for an algorithm.
How I used my home network to play PS5 on any TV in the house — no extra consoles needed.
Running a robot vacuum with zero cloud dependencies — local control, local maps, total privacy.
Building a hyper-local weather station with real-time dashboards and historical data — all running locally.
Building a GPS tracking system for bikes and vehicles that keeps data local while still working anywhere.
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