About Me

Hi, I’m Jeremy.

A while back, my heart stopped and I died for a bit. It was as strange and disruptive as it sounds, and it forced me to take a harder look at how I was spending my days. Since then, a question has followed me around: Does this actually matter, or am I just burning time?

I’m still working out the answer. This site is part of that.

These days, my professional focus is Athencia, the principal-led technology consultancy I’m building. We help organizations make technology decisions, deliver complicated projects, and take care of the systems their businesses depend on. I care about staying accountable for what happens after the advice is given and the project plan is approved.

I've spent over thirty years in a weird mix of business and technology: hands on engineering, leading teams, building businesses and practices from scratch, and trying to turn chaos into systems that normal humans can actually live with. I'm interested in whether the work reduces risk, makes something easier, or gives people back a few precious hours of their life.

A lot of what I write comes back to agency: having more say in how I spend my time and what I build with it. Health, money, work, relationships, and the small fears that get bigger when you leave them alone. I’m learning that focus sometimes means closing things down, even things I’ve put a lot into, so I can give the work that matters a fair shot.

On the nerd side, I’m a heavy user of generative AI. It’s a thinking partner, a debugging assistant, and an exceptionally patient rubber duck. I’m interested in what becomes possible when a person with some experience and curiosity can build and explore ideas that would previously have stayed in a notebook.

I live in the Seattle area with my wife, Holly, and our two dogs. We have three grown children who still show up to raid the fridge. When I’m not building or writing, I’m usually cooking, reading, or quietly optimizing some corner of my life that no one else will ever notice.

This is where I think out loud about all of it. Technology, business, ambition, mistakes, and occasionally figuring out how to leave well enough alone. Underneath it is the question I keep coming back to: How do you build a life and a business that are actually worth protecting?