Founder, Writer, Entrepreneur & Observer of People
Some people build careers around a single profession.
Mine has been built around a single question.
Why do people looking at the same life reach completely different conclusions?
That question has taken me across engineering, entrepreneurship, hospitality, software, writing, television, and conversations with thousands of people from around the world. It has led me to build businesses, lose businesses, start over, welcome hundreds of travelers through CasaJOMO, interview hospitality owners preparing for retirement, and design tools that help people make better decisions.
Today, that work comes together through Insyte Labs—a creative studio where ideas become books, software, games, businesses, and television.
Different mediums.
One purpose.
To help people better understand themselves, one another, and the decisions that shape their lives.
The Journey That Led Here
Life rarely followed the map I imagined.
Each unexpected turn challenged assumptions about identity, success, home, resilience, freedom, and belonging.
Over time I realized that the most meaningful transformations rarely begin with having better answers.
They begin with asking better questions.That realization continues to shape everything I create.
What I Create
I believe every meaningful idea deserves the medium that communicates it best.
Some ideas become memoirs.
Some become essay collections.
Some become novels.
Some become television.
Some become software.
Some become games.
Some become businesses.
Every project begins the same way—with careful observation of real people, real conversations, and real problems.
Writing I write across memoir, essays, commercial fiction, and television.
Essay Collections
Hospitality Essays — observations on boutique hospitality, branding, guest psychology, and meaningful experiences.
Travel & Move Abroad Essays — reflections on choosing countries, building a life abroad, and finding where you belong.
Lifestyle Essays — preserving the stories and lessons of independent hospitality owners navigating succession, retirement, and reinvention.
Tropical Table Essays — exploring food, culture, hospitality, and the stories shared around the table.
Memoir Non Fiction
A Beautiful Life, Misunderstood: Maps & Mirrors — a memoir in essays exploring the stories people tell about identity, belonging, success, and freedom—and the life that exists beneath those assumptions.
The Clock Was Already Ticking — reflective essays on family, time, resilience, and rebuilding.
Commercial Fiction
The TCK Cozy Mystery Series
Three-Year Check-ins
Please Don't Stand Out
The PDF Inheritance
Television
Permission Withdrawn — a one-hour serialized television drama exploring family, institutional power, and resilience.
Building Through Insyte Labs, I develop software, games, and businesses that help people make better decisions, preserve meaningful experiences, and better understand one another.
Software
Memyk — preserving conversations and lived experience.
Telyq — helping travelers make better decisions.
Archyk — organizing and exploring community knowledge.
Games
Guess Intentions — an educational game exploring cultural misunderstanding, empathy, and perspective.
Businesses
CasaJOMO — a boutique hospitality experience in Rio de Janeiro.
Tropical Table — a food brand inspired by hospitality, tropical ingredients, and meaningful gathering.
Adaptive Maternity & Nursing Bra — a product designed to support women through pregnancy and nursing with a single evolving garment.
Beyond the Work
Known as Day to family and friends, I've traveled to more than 40 countries and nearly 200 cities, experiences that continue to shape my curiosity about people, cultures, and the many ways we define home.
An engineer by training with a lifelong appreciation for architecture, fashion, food, history, music, and design, I'm fascinated by the intersection of analytical thinking and human experience.
My multicultural background and globally mobile life continue to inspire both my writing and the businesses I build.
Speaking & Conversations
Many of the ideas explored in my books, essays, software, and businesses began as conversations.
I enjoy speaking with organizations, universities, book clubs, hospitality groups, entrepreneurial communities, and retreat audiences about the themes that connect my work:
identity and belonging
hospitality and human connection
entrepreneurship and reinvention
decision-making
relocation and designing a life that fits
the stories we tell about success, freedom, and purpose
Rather than offering simple answers, my talks invite audiences to ask better questions, examine long-held assumptions, and see familiar experiences from new perspectives.
Whether the conversation begins in a conference room, around a breakfast table, or during a stay at CasaJOMO, my goal remains the same:
To help people leave with greater clarity, fresh perspectives, and better questions.
An Invitation
Whether you discover my work through a book, a piece of software, a television series, a business, or a conversation over breakfast at CasaJOMO, I hope you leave with something more valuable than answers.
A better question.
Because the most meaningful journeys rarely begin when we find certainty.
They begin when we're willing to see ourselves—and one another—from a different perspective.