A boy in tweed and a flat cap reaching toward a pale rose in a sunlit garden

Brett Wheeler

The world arrivesalready arranged.The work is to notice how.

Curious by default. Rigorous by training. I work at the seam where philosophy and patient attention meet.

Approach

A small portfolio of bets.

I run several things in parallel. Most are small. A few are larger. The arrangement is deliberate.

Single-bet careers depend on being right once. Multiple-bet practices depend on being right occasionally and recognizing it quickly when you are. The math favors the second.

Most of what's listed below will not become anything. That isn't a failure of the model — it's the model. The interesting question isn't whether each project succeeds, but whether the right one does, and whether I notice in time.

I'm allergic to scarcity pitches. The Shark Tank format trains founders to perform urgency at strangers; it trains audiences to confuse pressure for substance. Neither moves real work forward.

Each project below gets a paragraph. Read what's in front of you. If it lands, it lands.

Active Projects

Seven things in motion.

Listed roughly in order of substance. The two book projects come first because they're the deepest commitment. The held domain comes last because holding is itself a position.

Self Science

book in progress

selfscience.org

The Life Hack for Getting What You Want

Most personal development is reactive. You feel something, try something, feel different or you don't. Self Science applies the empirical method to the n=1 case: hypothesis, micro-experiment, measurement, bias-mitigated interpretation. Written for adults who consider themselves rational and data-driven but can't quite account for why their lives don't compound. Co-authored. Integrates Daoist Wu-Wei with Western scientific method — the parts of each that survive contact with the other.

Eligo Ergo Sum

book in progress

eligoergosum.com

I choose, therefore I am.

A counterpoint to Descartes, written for people who've noticed that thinking, by itself, doesn't seem to produce a self in any useful sense. Choice does. Agency does. The book argues that selfhood is downstream of decision, not cognition. Companion to Self Science: one is foundation, the other is method.

Pro Trader Advantage

concept

protraderadvantage.com

A system for traders who are already profitable and want to compound without taking on additional risk. Written for the narrow audience that already has a positive expectancy method and understands its own exposure — most edge-improvement content is written for people who haven't earned the right to apply it. Method is proprietary and not yet documented publicly. Adjacent: priceactionhero.net, a possible educational entry point. Status uncertain.

Christfunder

concept

christfunder.com

Faith-aligned crowdfunding campaigns currently scatter across GoFundMe, GiveSendGo, and a handful of smaller platforms. There's no unified discovery layer for donors who'd give more if they could find the right campaigns. Christfunder aggregates them. Trust signals are built around organizers' verifiable history rather than platform-specific reputation. The opportunity isn't fundraising — it's discovery.

Collective Capital Group

concept

collectivecapitalgroup.com

Sister concept to Christfunder for secular audiences, with one structural addition: a nurture funnel. Backers who fund once become candidates for future campaigns matching their giving pattern — opt-in, transparent, and aligned with how recurring philanthropy actually behaves. Different audience, parallel mechanics, separate brand.

Secure Love Letters

concept

secureloveletters.com

Correspondence-first international dating, written for people who'd rather exchange three good letters than swipe through a thousand profiles. Privacy and protection are architected in, not retrofitted. The thesis: speed has been overweighted for a decade; patience and writing produce a different filter, and a different outcome.

Quantinero

held

quantinero.com

A domain held in the quantitative trading and crypto territory. Held, not built — the right surrounding work hasn't attached to it yet. Listed here for completeness rather than promise. A held position is itself a form of judgment, and most domain portfolios would benefit from more of it.

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Writing

Where I think more clearly than I speak.

Track Record

Twenty years of work, in shapes.

Abstracted by category rather than employer. Specifics available on request, not on a public page.

  • Twenty-plus years in professional software engineering. Currently independent.
  • Architecture and senior engineering across the .NET / SQL Server ecosystem and the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem (Vue, Nuxt, Supabase). Cloud fluency on Azure and AWS.
  • Domains delivered: international ecommerce platforms, B2B SaaS, financial services systems, document automation, contract-driven greenfield builds.
  • Roles held: senior engineer, principal engineer, architect, technical director, project lead — across solo, small-team, and large-enterprise contexts. Comfortable in agile and SAFe environments without being precious about either.
  • Earlier specializations: statistical analysis, large-system integration, and data migration at scale.
  • BS, Computer Information Systems Management. Honors.