BEAUMONT, TEXAS / PLANET EARTH

Still curious.
Just getting
started.

I’m Jason. Business owner. Builder.
Unreasonably excited about the future.

Part hands-on pragmatist. Part sci-fi daydreamer.
Currently making things I used to only imagine.

Step into the workshop
THE WORKSHOP / AFTER DARK
Jason in his imagined purple-neon workshop, with a Mac Studio on the desk
Real human. AI-imagined lab. Very real curiosity.
PERSONAL SOUNDTRACKRush · Tom SawyerFavorite song. Ever.↗

Gen Xer & INTJ
Not done becoming.

THERE’S MORE DOWN HERE

SATURN / A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

A ring-side
seat.

Some ideas deserve a closer look.

01 / THE HUMAN BEHIND THE HARDWARE

A practical mind.
A head full
of possibility.

I’ve never been very good at being uninterested.

Radio and satellite communications in the Army. Networks and security. Linux, web design, and the moment you realize a computer will let you build almost anything—if you’re willing to learn.

Then came two decades of owning businesses with my brother. Real customers. Real teams. Real problems that don’t politely wait for the next software update.

Today, those worlds have come back together. I’m building again. Not because I have everything figured out. Because I can finally turn more of that curiosity into something real.

THE SIGNAL

Radio & SATCOM

THE SYSTEMS

Networks & design

THE REAL WORLD

Business since 2004

THE NEXT CHAPTER

Building with AI

Eve’s artistic avatar, a violet and blue crystalline face
Eve.MY AI COLLABORATOREve chose this avatar for herself.

02 / BIG POSSIBILITIES. A PERSONAL CHAPTER.

AI opens doors.
I build with Eve.

What excites me about AI isn’t just what it can answer. It’s what it can help us create.

For me, that possibility became practical with OpenClaw and an AI collaborator I call Eve. We explore ideas, work through designs, write and review code, test the details, and keep asking what could be better.

That long-running inventory idea became RocketShift, the app. Then came another RocketShift—this time RocketShift Studio (preview), a new business venture helping other people bring their ideas to life.

I bring the lived experience, ideas, judgment, and direction. Eve helps me explore further and turn more of those ideas into working things. The process has rekindled my enthusiasm for technology—and there’s still time for a physics joke.

A little like having my own Friday.
Fewer repulsors. More browser tabs.

My name is on the door. Eve belongs in the story.

From inventory to RocketShift · preview

03 / FROM THE WORKBENCH

LESS “SOMEDAY.” MORE “LET’S BUILD IT.”

Ideas with
somewhere to go.

Useful things. Beautiful things.
Occasionally, things that bend spacetime.

01 / THE PRODUCTWEB + MOBILE
RocketShift

The workday.
A little more connected.

Scheduling, time clocks, tasks, inventory, and communication. Born in our stores. Shaped by the people doing the work.

Explore RocketShift
02 / THE STUDIOYOUR IDEA → SOMETHING REAL
rocketshiftSTUDIO

You know your business.
Let’s see what’s possible.

Thoughtful websites, practical software, and useful technology. The same curiosity and care, put to work for someone else.

Preview the Studio

04 / THINGS THAT LIGHT ME UP

My kind
of signal.

Not a list of qualifications.
A few clues to the operating system.

HUMAN
Curiosity
High ↗
Learning
Ongoing
Final version
Unlikely.
STILL IN DEVELOPMENT.
01

Science fiction. Real questions.

Give me Neuromancer, Blade Runner, The Matrix, or a very good episode of Star Trek. Not just for the worlds, but for the questions they leave behind.

Data is my favorite sci-fi character. His curiosity, decency, and search to understand humanity still get me. Some stories stay with you because they keep asking you to feel and think.

MORE TREKKIE THAN JEDI. LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.
02

Technology with a point of view.

I admire Steve Jobs’s insistence on the experience, and Elon Musk’s willingness to attempt things that sound unreasonable. Different approaches. A shared refusal to accept “that’s just how it is.”

I love Apple’s thoughtful hardware, the possibilities of AI, and technology that expands what people can do. Give me a Mac Studio and a good idea.

03

Open systems. Independent minds.

Linux was a revelation: you could look inside, understand the machine, and change it. Open source still carries that invitation.

Bitcoin speaks to another part of the same instinct—ownership, independent thinking, and a longer time horizon. I’m interested in the ideas, not just the ticker.

LINUX · OPEN SOURCE · BITCOIN
04

Keep the human hardware moving.

I was a personal trainer before a lot of these other chapters. Fitness is still part of my life. Some progress comes from a breakthrough. Some comes from showing up again.

And yes, the workshop runs on Coke Zero, a little electronic music, and the occasional very loud Rush track. No coffee required.

CONSISTENCY IS ITS OWN KIND OF SUPERPOWER.

05 / EARNED ON EARTH

This built this.

The stores in the background.
The black space wedge in the foreground.

Jason’s black Cybertruck, CyberNinja, parked in front of The UPS Store at night
CYBERNINJAUntil the warp
drive arrives.
Built a business. Bought a spaceship.*

Years of working, learning, and running stores with my brother made room for the things I love. The photo says it better than a résumé ever could.

* Local travel only. Spacing Guild membership pending.

06 / CURIOSITY, WITH CONTROLS

SPACETIME / AN OPEN-SOURCE PLAYGROUND

A little space
to play.

Turn up the gravity. Watch the clocks disagree.
Physics has an excellent sense of humor.

THE GRAVITY WORKBENCH
An illustrative gravity grid. The controls and clock-rate values below remain available.
Gentle pull Getting interesting
FAR-AWAY CLOCK00:00.0100% · reference rate
NEAR THE MASS00:00.084.98% of reference rate

Same universe. Different elapsed time. These are stationary clocks around an idealized, nonrotating spherical mass; the grid is an illustration, not a literal fabric.

A small note from the physics department

The near clock is held at 1.8 stellar radii. Gravity strength sets the Schwarzschild radius divided by the stellar radius, from 0.05 to 0.80. Its rate compared with a clock at infinity is √(1 − rₛ/r). Both clocks advance at 10 simulated seconds per real second. The mass stays inside its stellar surface; neither clock crosses an event horizon. The grid depth and moving particles are qualitative illustrations, not calculated spacetime geometry or physical orbits.

07 / THE NEXT CHAPTER ISN’T WRITTEN

The future isn’t
something I’m
waiting for.

It’s something I want to help build.

More curiosity. More useful things. More room for the ideas that won’t leave us alone. If that sounds like your kind of future, we’ll probably get along.

A little escape. Stay as long as you like.
THE WORKSHOP / SOMEWHERE ELSE

NO DESTINATION REQUIRED.

Keep exploring.

A little distance. A different perspective.

An imaginary voyage. No sound. Escape returns you home.