Blog

In my blog you'll find posts on how I've automated things in my life or at work. I also write about learnings and the latest updates about my journey as an entrepreneur to my advisors.

I Built a Selenium Bot That Books Tennis Courts at Exactly 7:00 AM — Here's How

A popular public tennis center near me opens its booking window at 7 AM for the next day only. Courts fill in minutes. I built a bot that logs in, picks a slot, solves the CAPTCHA, and pays — plus a Telegram interface so I can queue bookings the night before from my phone.

Apr 2026

How I Recovered Missing Data from a Failed Power Automate Flow — No Code Required

A Power Automate flow silently failed for 10 days, writing nothing to Excel. Here's how I found out what was lost, confirmed which payments were actually missing, and got it done in under an hour.

Apr 2026

Building an Automated Legislative Transcription Pipeline with Whisper and GitHub Actions

Michigan House and Senate hearing videos are public but have no transcripts. I built a pipeline that scrapes the videos, downloads them, transcribes with Whisper large-v3, runs QC scoring on every segment, applies grammar correction, uploads to S3, and runs three times daily on GitHub Actions — completely unattended.

Feb 2026

"Advisor Update #20: The Campaign I Couldn't Launch and What Comes Next"

I built a complete 7-email cold outreach campaign with 510 leads and a click funnel. Then it got killed before launch due to a contractual issue. Here's what I learned and what I'm doing next.

Feb 2024

"Advisor Update #19: Laid Off, 35 Construction Interviews, and a Cold Email Deal"

Got laid off from eMed on October 17. Immediately gave starting a company another shot — 35 interviews in construction, then pivoted to WashU alumni outreach. Landed a commission-only deal to recruit financial advisors.

Dec 2023