May was a great month. For one, Yingyue and I said our vows:

Three weeks in, and I still smile at these photos. Some of the ones that stick:

• too excited to get started, we left the car doors wide open for hours

• the judge went off-script in terms of the vows, confusing everyone

• when we went to take pictures after, my dad took several of a duck

There are more reflections I am working on, and I hope to share soon. This was an excellent day. Find your person, and find them early.

I moved to Delaware

Abi has started an clerk internship at the chancery of complex commercial litigation. So far, she is loving it. We have only been in Delaware for two weeks. Right now, we are in the Trolley Square area.

This was described to us as the area where tons of younger people are. Where trees are lush and houses don’t blend together. And so far, it has lived up to our expectations!

We are here until mid-August, where we will then return to Carlisle, PA. But for now, we are here! If you know anybody we should meet, send them my way.

Third South Capital

We’ve started doing advisory work for some friends in both the:

• “I’m thinking about implementing AI in my business, but I don’t know where to start”, and the

• “I’m thinking about selling my business to private equity” camps.

Being able to see these businesses from the angles our team brings and ask pertinent questions has been fulfilling. I say this as a warning, as it means more of my writing will trend in this direction. There’s so much space to talk about the problems our friends are facing, and how I think about tackling them.

Here are two pieces about work we have done internally:

The JustinBot: Devouring Our Support Inbox With AI is about how we have approached customer-facing AI applications.

What AI Actually Does to Legacy Software goes over the internal approach to AI application. Where the literal engineering work that AI can do allows me to elevate to higher and more important tasks, without necessarily sacrificing quality.

On the very human side, I wrote about how muscle memory is a good UX feature, a hard lesson to learn when re-writing legacy software. There’s also a piece on getting tons of reps with peers, and what that does and why you should do it. And one on deadlines: why they are artificial and should be cut in half.

The next few months promise to bring plenty of excitement, joy, and hard work. Let's get started!