Comedy  ·  Music  ·  Writing

The Part That
Doesn't Close Deals

Years on stage doing standup and improv in Tulsa. AI music on Spotify. Essays on LinkedIn that nobody asked for. The same person who builds power infrastructure also writes jokes, makes music from scratch with a machine, and occasionally just needs to say something.

Standup & Improv Comedy AI Music Published Writing

Years on Stage

Standup and improv comedy in Tulsa, Oklahoma — performing live sets, building material, and learning the hard lesson that timing matters in comedy the same way it matters in deal-making.

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Not Safe For Work — Personal / Hobby Content
Standup comedy sets may contain profanity, mature themes, and content that may be inappropriate in a professional context. This was a personal hobby pursued entirely outside of and separate from professional life — performed for fun, for live audiences, on a comedy stage. It is shared here in the spirit of full transparency about who I am as a person, not as a reflection of my conduct or communication style in a work environment.
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Standup Sets — YouTube
A collection of live standup performances. Years of writing and stage time in Tulsa — the kind of craft that requires you to fail publicly, figure out why, and get back up. If the energy career is about building systems that work under pressure, comedy is about building sentences that land the same way.
▶ Watch the Sets
Performed standup and improv in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Real sets, real audiences, real bombing occasionally — all part of the process. The channel is a record of material that made it to the stage.
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Standup
Writing solo material, testing it on stage, iterating based on what the room tells you. Every set is a hypothesis. The audience gives you immediate, honest data — nothing like a boardroom where people politely wait to disagree with you later.
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Improv
Yes, and. The core rule of improv is also one of the most underrated tools in high-stakes negotiation. You can't close a $900M contract by shutting down what the other side brings to the table. You build on it.
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Why It Matters
The people who can explain a complex idea simply, hold a room's attention, and read when something isn't landing — they're better at almost everything else. Comedy is brutal training for clarity and timing in communication.

AI Music on Spotify

Creating music using AI generation tools — producing original tracks, experimenting with genres, and releasing on Spotify. A different kind of creative output from someone who spends his days in Excel and turbine specs.

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Spotify
Original music produced with AI generation tools — exploring what's possible when you use the technology as a creative instrument rather than a shortcut. Available on Spotify.
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Essays & Published Pieces

A mix of personal essays and opinion pieces published on LinkedIn over the years — from early takes on cryptocurrency and crowdfunding to more personal writing about liberty, dreams, and what it means to pursue something difficult.

2026
LinkedIn Pulse  ·  February 2026  ·  Energy / Industry
2024
LinkedIn Pulse  ·  October 2024  ·  Personal Essay
2023
LinkedIn Pulse  ·  October 2023  ·  Finance / Technology
2021
LinkedIn Pulse  ·  April 2021  ·  Business / Capital
2018
LinkedIn Pulse  ·  March 2018  ·  Personal Essay