TELOS
Inspired by Daniel Miessler's TELOS page, and his footnote about the strangeness of posting it, I wanted to follow suit. He's right. It is worth it if it gets other people to do the same. Maybe by exposing some of ourselves, we can realize that we're closer together than we think.
I asked Caisson to create a summary similar to Daniel's and you'll find it below.
Problems
- P0, Enterprise UX. Enterprise UX is fragmented and inaccessible. Teams build in silos, accessibility gets bolted on at the end, and the result is systems that don't serve people well. The work is proving that accessibility and coherent design systems aren't overhead. They're infrastructure that makes everything else possible.
- P1, Creative and narrative. People experience shame and self-judgment about their failures and temptations, and don't know how to integrate those into a coherent narrative of redemption and growth.
- P2, Personal coherence. Coherence across multiple life domains, work, faith, family, creative projects, breaks down without a system that surfaces patterns and connections. The result is recreating solutions repeatedly instead of building on what's already been learned.
Strategies
- S1, Show, don't sell. Lead with evidence and examples, not persuasion. Show the work, demonstrate the outcome, let people see themselves in the solution. Don't argue that something matters, embed it in the workflow and let people experience the value. I'm willing to work in isolation if needed: build the thing, prove it works, then others follow. Competence more than confidence.
- S2, Externalize to explore. I've offloaded pattern-matching and novelty-seeking to a system, so my ENTP brain can do what it's actually good at, seeing connections and designing elegant solutions, without fragmenting my attention across every domain at once. That system is Caisson. It's the container that lets me explore without losing coherence.
Missions
- M0. Build systems that free me from the burden of remembering so I can focus on becoming who God is calling me to be.
- M1, work. Build infrastructure that helps others externalize their thinking so they can operate at their best. This is my work mission: accessibility, documentation, and systems thinking as gifts that scale beyond any one team.
- M2, creative. Create and share work that helps people understand the redemptive arc of their own lives.
- M3, decade-plus. Live in such a way that my children and the people around me see what it looks like to surrender control, trust God, and build something meaningful from that posture.
Related Projects
- Upstream, UX, design systems, and accessibility strategy consulting.
- KJV Unlocked, a study-method page for serious lay Bible readers.
- Fully Known, a memoir and album concept about faith, temptation, and surrender. Still in progress, concept and outline stage.
- This hub, where all of this lives, including this page.