About

Sacred Technician
Self-taught software engineer and operations generalist. The operations guy on the tech team and the tech guy on the operations team. Becoming a nervous system cartographer by necessity. Building the life I want to live, one insight and integration at a time.

What I build

I build systems that help people do their best work and structures that help them be their best selves.

I am building myself as the tool for this work. I am learning to hold space for others, to be a safe harbor in the storm, and to help people find their way back to themselves.

What does it take to become someone who can hold space for others? How do we build the world we want to live in? How do we create the conditions for our best selves to thrive?

What I am learning to build

• Systems that support nervous system safety and coherence.
• Ritual containers for healing and transformation.
• Local, embodied community.

What I care about

I care about the stuff that makes a life work: the food that doesn’t wreck you, the friendships that don’t collapse under stress, the systems (inner and outer) that don’t fall apart when things get hard. I care about coherence. I care about nervous systems. I care about making things that feel good to be inside—whether that’s a house, a spreadsheet, a relationship, or a body. This started as survival. Now it's the path.

Health as integration

• CPTSD recovery through somatic integration and nervous system literacy.
• Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
• Gluten-free → Paleo → Autoimmune Paleo (AIP) → carnivore → successful food reintroduction through trauma healing.
• Four pillars of health: Nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management.
• Nervous system literacy.
• Somatic trauma recovery.
• Tension between materialism and woo:
  • Learning to trust my intuition and the wisdom of my body.
  • Getting comfortable in the space between mechanistic truth and mystical resonance.

Sustainable agriculture

• Animal welfare with the understanding that animal protein is a necessary component in the optimal diet for most people.
• Farming practices that are a net environmental benefit (regenerative agriculture).
• Voting with our wallets to support both of the above.

Hobbies

• Photography (GeneralAntilles on Flickr).
• Trail running.
• Electrical, plumbing, carpentry, and other home improvement (who wants to build a sanctuary with me?).
• Hosting spaces for connection and coherence.
• Home (lighting, comfort, status monitoring).
• In-person rocket launches.
• Writing and journaling.
• Years-long slow learning of the guitar.

Self-governance and community

I care about community. Strong community with trust, transparency, and teeth.

• How to protect oneself from politics.
• Decentralization and federation. Democratize everything.
• Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
• Self-organizing systems.
• Open source technologies and open source philosophy.
• Building strong communities through strong relationships. Community stewardship.
• Peer mentorship in healing and self-trust

Past lives

• I was involved Maemo community back before Nokia got Microsoft'd.
• I spent years supporting and managing contact center operations, including workforce management, analytics, and data engineering. It taught me how to enable effective structures and management with technology. How people break down and how systems can help hold them up.
• I spent a lot of time on fostering organizational structure to support remote work and a distributed workforce. I was a remote worker before it was cool.
• Community technical writing and documentation.