About
I'm a writer, filmmaker, and AI practitioner who directs DevOps and cloud infrastructure by day. Published author of AgentSpek, a practitioner's guide to AI-assisted development. Director of Napkin Films, an animated short film studio made entirely from code. I run Organic Arts LLC, a Nevada LLC focused on technical publishing, creative engineering, and building at the AI frontier.
What I do professionally: Director-level DevOps leadership, cloud architecture, AWS infrastructure at scale, 15+ years building distributed systems. The kind of work where you're three levels of abstraction above the code and still responsible when it breaks.
What I do here: Write about AI-assisted engineering, agent workflows, systems thinking, and the stranger edges of building at the frontier. Also: book reviews, field notes, and long essays that don't fit anywhere else.
Projects you might care about:
- AgentSpek — My book on working with AI agents. Practical, not hype. Available on Amazon.
- Napkin Films — AI-directed animated films. Stick figures, chip tune scores, all made from code.
- ChipForge — A chip tune music synthesis engine built from scratch in Python/numpy.
- The Decan Log — A book on the 10-day decanal calendar and conscious living. In progress.
There is something about writing by hand that I keep coming back to. The way ink flows from pen to page, how thoughts pour out when I stop trying to control them. Stephen King writes about this in On Writing. The act of putting words down becomes its own form of discovery. That resonated with me deeply.
This practice of freewriting, of mining the subconscious, is the center of everything here.
I started without a map. Just notebooks and the compulsion to record whatever was drifting below the surface, waiting to make its way out. Handwritten journals translated into digital form, reflections that became essays, a life examined one page at a time.
What Lives Here
Essays on technology and consciousness, AI development, philosophy. What it means to be alive in a moment when machines are learning to think alongside us. Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden shaped how I think about intelligence and what makes us human.
Book Reviews on the books that changed how I see things:
- Philosophy & Meaning: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Peace in Every Breath by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Cosmic Perspective: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. The one that remapped everything.
- Writing & Creativity: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, On Writing by Stephen King, Gertrude Stein on Writing
- Technology: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Insanely Great on the Macintosh revolution
- Fiction & Adventure: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Pink Boots and a Machete
If a book changed me, I wrote about it. Browse them all
Freewriting sessions where the pen makes its own journey. Raw, unfiltered, sometimes strange.
Journals tracking the decanal cycles. Ten days at a time, watching what shifts.
AgentSpek is my book on working with AI. It's available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback, and free to read here in full.
Napkin Films is an animated short film studio I run using AI-directed stick figure animation and chip tune scores. Short, strange, made entirely from code. Watch the playlist.
There is more on the Projects page.
Some of it will resonate. Some won't. I write to find out what I think, not to tell you what to think.
This site is independently run. No ads, no paywalls, no investors. Everything here is self-funded on a shoestring. If something has been useful to you, buying a book through one of the links here costs you nothing extra and keeps this going. That's all I ask.
Joshua