$ whoami

Building what's next. Reading about what was.

$ echo $MANTRAWork hard and be nice.

Founder, builder, dad, Phi Gam and Detroit sports fan. Notes on platforms, insurance, AI agents, history rabbit holes and whatever is on the bench this week. My digital place since 2012.

$ cat persona.yml

handle: daryxborn
since: 2012
stack: Tawa · Claude · Raspberry Pi
mantra: work hard, be nice
fraternity: Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Tau ’95
teams: Pistons · Lions · Tigers
linkedin: /in/captaincaptive
contact: ~/ask

$ open cloys.appCloys runs my day. A coach on your phone that plans your day, keeps your goals in it and talks you through it. If you found this site, this is the thing I'd want you to try. Try Cloys →

$ tail blog.log

2013-04-15

Grey's latest baseball gamearchive

Rangers won 21–1. Grey at catcher, batting third.

2013-04-01

I love sunsets with my HBarchive

Still true.

2013-04-01

Michigan cuts down the netsarchive

I never thought they had a chance.

all posts → 2012–13 archive →

$ tail answers.log

No answers posted yet. Be the first to ask.

$ ./ask --question "…" →

$ ls interests/

industry/

Insurance and insurtech

How the business works, and how to fix the parts that don't.

societies/

Historical societies

Local archives, old records and the people who keep them.

alt-history/

Alternative history

The what-ifs, and the stories the textbooks skipped.

cia/

The CIA, via John Kiriakou

His books, interviews and what they say about the agency.

fiji/

Phi Gamma Delta

Phi Tau chapter, pledged fall 1995. A Phi Gam for life. Friendship, the greatest of all.

detroit/

Pistons, Lions, Tigers

Detroit basketball, football and baseball, win or lose.

sports/

Michigan hoops and little league

Plus Texas in April and sunsets with my HB.

lab/

Raspberry Pis and mesh radios

Whatever is on the bench this week.

$ ls -l projects/ →