I'm Collin.
I work in infrastructure and really like it. I got a job
at 
Steel by building their CLI tool. I worked on AI agent infrastructure, and agent tooling. I
met a lot of great people and learned a lot about building
companies.
I like open-source software, impressionist art, espresso,
kombucha, fruit, home-brewing, public transit, jazz music (
Cal Tjader), 90s rap (
OutKast, 
Gang Starr, 
Pete Rock).
I like games and I think they are applicable to everything in life. People who play games have better meta skills like strategy, resource allocation, critical thinking, risk estimation, and searching the move tree. My favorites are poker, and chess.
I studied Psychology in college because I wanted to understand people and what was wrong with me. Turns out nothing but I learned a lot about the world.
I am married to my wife Mia and we currently live in the US.
I taught myself coding in high school and have done various ventures like consulting for startups, freelancing, and some service-based businesses when I was younger. Currently I am building 🦌 deer.sh.
I like meeting new people. If you want to talk,
grab some time.
Things I constantly try to remind myself:
- The whole reason you are here is to figure out what you want and go get it. In the words of Steve Jobs, "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. "
- In three generations almost everything you do will be completely forgotten except for some adjectives and one sentence on your headstone.
- Speed is the only edge. The reason people win is because they are able to move 100x faster than you by focusing on the one thing that actually makes a difference (highest-order bit) and dumping the rest.
- People don't care if you ship something shitty everyday, they care if you don't ship today. Slope > Y-intercept. Just ship it.
- Hard things = not knowing what you are doing. The "not knowing what you are doing" part is the hard part and where most people give up. Just keep trying.
- The world was built by people like us, follow your curiousity, build awesome things and you will make your dent in the universe.