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On thinking in uniform.

I serve as a field grade officer in the United States Air Force, where my work as an aviator and Foreign Area Officer requires constant navigation of complex landscapes. My writing is an exercise in cartography—an attempt to build more accurate mental maps of my professional and personal domains through deliberate, reflective thought.

This site functions as a digital archive and a personal navigation hub. It brings together over fifteen years of military service, strategic inquiry, and personal reflection into a single, cohesive index. Whether through the directness of a field note or the long-horizon exploration of the Optionality newsletter, these pages are dedicated to the pursuit of clarity in an increasingly ambiguous world.

• currently reading — Sebald · Didion · Clausewitz
• currently writing — essays on restraint as doctrine
• currently walking — the ridge above Cold Spring