Falken's Mage

Twenty-five years in the guts of enterprise systems. Distributed architectures where a bad design decision doesn't just fail — it fails at 2 AM on a Friday and takes someone's entire quarter with it. I'm good at that work.

I'm also an archetypal tarotist, astrologer, chaos witch, and the kind of person who will diagram your org's dysfunction on a whiteboard and then pull a card that names the thing nobody in the room was willing to say out loud.

Most people keep those worlds separate. I think that's a load of horseshit.

The analytical mind and the symbolic mind are not competing systems. They're complementary cognitive architectures — and if you're only running one of them, you're leaving half your intelligence on the table.

I write about this at Feral Architecture. I coach leaders who are tired of optimizing their way to burnout. I speak to rooms full of engineers about things they didn't know they needed to hear. And I build real software that treats the inner life as engineering-grade signal, not soft skills fluff you endure at an offsite.

If any of that made you flinch, we're probably not a fit. If it made something in you go finally — stick around.

Coaching for leaders done performing. Speaking for rooms done pretending. If you're ready to stop splitting yourself in half to fit — let's fucking go.