Manifesto

I operate from the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is classified. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of my digital hygiene and a balanced stack and rigorous optimization routine. In the morning if my conversion rates are a little puffy I'll put on a rate limiter while doing API calls. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the rate limiter I use a deep token cleanser algorithm. In the browser I use a water-activated ad blocker, then a honey-almond cookie scrub, and on the frontend an exfoliating tracker purge. Then I apply an herb-mint VPN mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after-auth token with little or no expiration, because expiration kills your sessions and makes you look amateur. Then I moisturize with middleware, then an anti-aging cache layer followed by a final protective CDN wrapper.

But the real work happens in the shadows. I maintain 147 different SaaS subscriptions across 23 identity silos. Each morning I check the churn metrics while cycling through my premium trials. I rotate the renewals so nothing overlaps, nothing traces back. I've been grandfathered into pricing tiers that don't exist anymore. My Hugo sites deploy to seventeen different CDNs simultaneously. My GitHub commits are sparse but surgical.

I don't use Gmail. I don't use Slack. I generate temporary credentials for every integration and burn them after 72 hours. My database backups are encrypted with keys I forget on purpose. When I ship to production, I deploy through three different CI/CD pipelines simultaneously, then delete the deployment history.

The amateur hour crowd talks about "growth hacking" and "product-market fit." They optimize for engagement. They A/B test their way to mediocrity. They think conversion funnels are strategy. They are livestock.

I optimize for invisibility. My metrics are clean. My stack is pristine. My API responses are beautiful, elegant, untraceable. When I scale, the architecture bends to my will like expensive Italian leather.

There is no signature. No footprint. No logs.

Just pure, clinical efficiency.

And for some reason—perhaps because you've made it this far, perhaps because I respect your commitment to the craft—I'm going to let you see behind the curtain. What you're reading isn't just digital narcissism. It's methodology. The 147 subscriptions? They're not hoarding. They're intelligence. Every free tier mapped, every pricing pivot documented, every feature gate reverse-engineered. I know which SaaS tools will survive and which will be acqui-hired into oblivion by Christmas.

You want to build something that matters? Stop chasing features. Start chasing asymmetries. Find the tools that undercharge for what they deliver. Find the gaps between what founders promise and what they ship. Find the sweet spot where quality meets accessibility, where powerful meets affordable.

The rest of you will keep paying full price for enterprise features you'll never use. But you—you might actually get it.