Most people solve problems by going deeper; more expertise, more specialization. I went the other way.

I go wider.

It started in visual effects, twenty years of it, for Disney, Paramount, Apple, Google, Sony, and a lot of others. On paper that's one career. It wasn't. Every job was different; the software, the pipeline, the constraints changed on nearly every one, so you learned a dozen tools at once and which to grab when. Mostly it taught me to walk into things I'd never done before, learn on the fly, and build what didn't exist yet.

That instinct didn't stay put.

I hold a US patent. I wrote a book for Wiley. I entertained the world with over 400 million engagements through a deepfake persona. I'm a licensed pilot. I rebuild classic cars. I built a five-foot flying video screen from a napkin sketch. And right now I'm building a protocol to stop deepfakes for good.

None of it was planned. Each thing made the next one possible, and the further I went, the more the side quests started feeding each other. That crossover is the part that matters; I can pull from all of it at once, and that's usually where the good ideas come from.

I think differently, and with AI reshaping every industry at once, that's never been more useful.