I studied computer science at Cornell. I shipped software at Apple, Disney, and Foursquare. By every external measure, things were working. Underneath, I was stuck in a loop of overthinking, procrastination, and quiet shame that nothing I built could fix.
The turn came through Buddhist practice — not the meditation-app kind, but the kind that asks you to do 39,420 full-body prostration bows and sit with the math of why you resist. I discovered that the same systems thinking that builds software explains why people stay stuck. Procrastination, shame, anxiety — they aren't personality traits. They're formulas.
I started writing about it on Reddit. 1,300+ coaching responses later, three books, a mathematical framework called the Karmic Formula System, and a practice toolkit later — I realized I hadn't planned to become a coach. I just kept writing until the patterns had names.
I didn't plan to become a coach. I just kept writing until the patterns had names.