I don't even know what I'm doing with my life anymore — I just know I have to build something that feels like me.
Here’s how I got here.
My Life So Far (late 30s)
I work a corporate job now — hence the anonymity — but I didn’t always feel this leashed. I used to work for startups as a backend engineer.
Over the years, I accumulated a mountain of debt that still hangs over my shoulders. Having a job was never optional — I’ve always had to work to survive.
Now, in my late 30s, I feel like I'm wasting my life away. For the first time in my life, I’m receiving a windfall that will let me pay off much of my debt. By the end of 2025, I should finally be free enough to breathe.
That will end a decade-long ordeal because I've been fighting my debt seriously since 2019, but by then, I already had somewhere between $50-70k in debt.
In addition to feeling shackled to my day jobs due to my debt, every startup I joined eventually collapsed. Each time the lights went out, I realized a little more: I need to build something that can’t be shut down on me.
Over the last decade, I've explored a wide range of content creation projects. None of it had a life-changing impact. But I learned a lot from all of those failed sites.
And that brings me to The Nerd Bro.
Is This Just Another Failed Experiment?
Every project before this had my face on it. This one doesn’t — not out of fear, but out of freedom. I want to build without expectations.
This time, I'm not building a brand. I'm building a home. I'm not sure how I'll make this my full-time thing, but it's not a concern for me right now. For now, I just want to write what my nerdy soul pulls me toward — Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Witcher, Zelda, Pokémon, Dungeons & Dragons, the MCU, The Stormlight Archive, and more.
I want to nerd out here like I would with a friend — ranting about lore, worldbuilding, and the emotional gut punches these stories give us.
Maybe one day I’ll turn some of these essays into video essays. Maybe I’ll stream the games, mic on, camera off.
But for now, it’s just me and the words — trying to rediscover my voice.
Let The Journey Begin!
I don’t want to promise a posting schedule. I don’t want to define what this will be.
As long as it’s nerdy and worth saying, I’ll say it.
No more overthinking. No strategy decks. No perfect launches.
Just me, one post at a time, rediscovering what I actually love.