
AI Platform Specialist. Renaissance Craftsman.
Building intellectual sovereignty in the AI age.
New Jersey · Renaissance Thinking for the AI Age
The short version, and the honest one.
I'm CK. By day, I help enterprise customers navigate complex AI platforms. By night, I'm reading Seneca, building self-hosted infrastructure on Linux, learning to draw from classical casts, and 3D printing things for the apartment. On Sunday, I'm probably in a pew somewhere trying to figure out how faith, philosophy, and an 800-year-old apprenticeship model all point in the same direction.
I call this the Renaissance Craftsman approach. Not because I'm trying to be Leonardo da Vinci. Because I genuinely believe that the best ideas come from connecting things that aren't supposed to be connected. Henry Chapman Mercer built an entire castle by hand to preserve craft traditions he saw disappearing. That impulse, to protect what matters by building something with your hands, is the same one driving this whole project.
I'm not a productivity influencer. I'm not optimizing my morning routine. I'm a first-generation Filipino-American who got obsessed with too many things, spent years thinking that was a problem, and eventually realized it was the whole point.
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"Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake."
Richard Sennett, The CraftsmanWhat I'm building, learning, or making right now.
The domains I explore and how they connect.
I don't believe in specializing in one thing. I believe in going deep across many things and finding the patterns between them. The number is the goal. Not the timeline.
A three-layer system for thinking, creating, and learning.
Analog notebooks. Kokuyo Systemic cover with three Midori MD inserts. The hand thinks differently than the keyboard.
AI collaboration as cognitive extension. Claude for deep synthesis. Gemini for real-time research. Neither one the author.
An Obsidian vault with 500+ notes. The permanent record of everything that survives the other two layers. Local-first, markdown-based.
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens."
Ecclesiastes 3:1Thinking out loud, on purpose.