https://living-wired.com The wiring of a builder who thinks differently. en-us https://living-wired.com/writing/i-built-the-thing-i-hated-doing https://living-wired.com/writing/i-built-the-thing-i-hated-doing Years of cut-and-paste proposal hell taught me the tools were never the answer. So I spent 16 hours building the machine instead of writing one more proposal by hand. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/the-superpower-nobody-caught https://living-wired.com/writing/the-superpower-nobody-caught A billionaire says my kind of brain wins the AI era. I feel it firing across four projects. I also wish someone had caught it forty years sooner. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/the-tunnel-and-the-flood https://living-wired.com/writing/the-tunnel-and-the-flood My brain throws twenty urgent things at me before my feet hit the floor, and I either freeze or disappear down one of them. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/the-four-faces-in-a-room-of-600 https://living-wired.com/writing/the-four-faces-in-a-room-of-600 I walked into a room full of people who were happy to see me, and my brain only counted the four who weren't. Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/who-am-i-when-my-kids-arent-here https://living-wired.com/writing/who-am-i-when-my-kids-arent-here I sat in family court and learned that understanding someone doesn't mean you can fix it — and that peace isn't waiting on the other side of the problem. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/why-wired-builder-exists https://living-wired.com/writing/why-wired-builder-exists This is not a startup blog. It's a place to document how a builder actually thinks. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/rsac-2019-searching-for-authenticity-at-the-cirque-de-security https://living-wired.com/writing/rsac-2019-searching-for-authenticity-at-the-cirque-de-security Many are criticizing RSAC for becoming a spectacle. Cmd tried something different, trading the booth for charity donations and 14 real conversations. Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/locked-in-a-soundproof-booth-my-experience-at-defcons-se-ctf-competition https://living-wired.com/writing/locked-in-a-soundproof-booth-my-experience-at-defcons-se-ctf-competition Part three. Taking the stage at DEF CON 26 for the live call portion of the SECTF competition, and what I learned going through the whole experience. Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/how-a-salesman-infiltrated-the-worlds-largest-hacker-conference-part-2 https://living-wired.com/writing/how-a-salesman-infiltrated-the-worlds-largest-hacker-conference-part-2 Part two of how a salesman infiltrated DEF CON. What it took to build the OSINT report, and some of the sensitive information I found on my target company. Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://living-wired.com/writing/how-a-salesman-infiltrated-the-worlds-largest-hacker-conference-part-1 https://living-wired.com/writing/how-a-salesman-infiltrated-the-worlds-largest-hacker-conference-part-1 I manage sales for Cmd. In two weeks, I'll be getting on stage in Las Vegas in front of over 1,000 hackers at DEF CON, the world's largest hacker conference. Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT