I manage IT projects, build small tools with AI, and film the whole thing from New Jersey.

What I care about

• Explaining project management in plain English. Nobody did that for me. So I do it for you.
• Building small tools and actually shipping them. An iPhone app, a planner, a job board. Built with AI, used by real people.
• The craft of video. Cameras, light, sound, the edit. I'd rather get it right in the shoot than fix it in post.
• Driving electric, and being honest about what it costs. The ownership story past month one.
• Leading as an introvert. You don't have to become someone else to run the room.

• Building: an automated video-editing pipeline with Claude Code, so I spend time filming, not cutting.
• Filming: the Tesla ownership series on Niks Garage, and AI-for-PM on Niks Projects.
• Learning: [Nik: what you're learning this month]
• Reading: [Nik: what's on the nightstand]
• Driving: a Tesla Model Y. The Tundra is gone.

You don't need the title to start doing the work.

Shelf

1. The 12 Week Year, Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington. A year is too long to plan. Twelve weeks is long enough to finish something and short enough to feel the clock.
2. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill. Old, strange in places, and still the clearest case I've read that what you expect of yourself sets the ceiling.
3. The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz. The book that told an introvert on a mainframe team he was allowed to want more.
4. Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss. Every project is a negotiation. This is the one book on it I'd hand a new PM.
5. Deep Work, Cal Newport. Why my calendar has blocks nobody can book over.
6. Atomic Habits, James Clear. Systems over goals. The reason this page has a Now section.
7. The Dip, Seth Godin. Short. Tells you when to quit and when to push. I reread it before every hard stretch.