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Building things that compound: a business, a body of work, a jiu jitsu game, and a backyard that feeds us.

Three months into working for myself. I run Tessellant, an AI and automation consultancy, and I’m doing more building than at any point in twenty years of IT - platforms, integrations, and a fleet of agents that does a lot of the work alongside me. The focus is still the messy middle: the gap between what AI can do and what a real business can actually absorb. Prestage is the holding company behind it all. Everything starts there; not everything stays.

My hours are my own now, and that was the point. School runs and the ordinary middle-of-the-day moments.

Also hunting for the right Cayenne GTS - a 2013-14 958.1, the last of the naturally aspirated V8s. Naturally, I built an agent stack to do the hunting: five research streams across forums and owner reports, forty YouTube transcripts read so I didn’t have to watch them, and a watcher that checks the listings every day. The transfer case is the thing to worry about. I now know more about its fluid than I ever planned to. All of it went into a 958.1 GTS handbook - faults, service data, part numbers and mods, every claim sourced.

BJJ most days, and competing when I can. What happens on the mats doesn’t stay there - it’s changed how I parent, work, and handle hard conversations. The body and mind aren’t as separate as I once thought.

The hunger for information never stops - books, podcasts, rabbit holes. But the shift now is toward creating, not just consuming. Writing more, sharing publicly, building a body of work. Input without output is just entertainment. Most recently: The backlog, on what three months of building with agents actually looked like.

The backyard is popping off. Eleven racks of bananas on at once, at various stages of ripening. Avocados grown from seed that keep pushing past three metres even after topping. Sugar cane, mulberries loaded with fruit, and an acerola cherry that fruits harder every time I hedge it back. Two mamey sapote, grown from seed about two years ago, have set their first fruit. The grumichama is still thinking about it. Syntropic agroforestry is backgrounded for now; the plants don’t seem to have noticed. Redlands Garden Share, which I started years ago, now lives with Redlands Edible Garden Trail.

Based in Mount Cotton, Queensland - though increasingly curious what a less anchored life might look like.

If you’re playing similar games, I’d like to hear from you - [email protected]

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