Building
They're Putting My Link on the Screen
Last year at NCSLI I built a frontend for a measurement taxonomy during the session. This Tuesday they present the catalog publicly — and put that link on the screen.
Kevin Mastriano
The wiring never changed.I just finally figured out what to do with it.
I walked into detox on New Year's Day, 2009, with everything I owned in one duffel bag. I've been clean since the first minute of that year. Eight years later I joined my uncle's calibration business — an owner-operator out of East Falmouth, working from the back of his vehicle — brand new to the trade, and spent two years learning it beside him. Then I took it over, brought it to North Haven, built the lab, and grew Custom Calibration 5× — past $1 million a year — no degree, an ADHD brain I never medicated. Life, business, family, the protocol: this site is me documenting all of it, restarts included.
// WHAT THIS SITE IS
Social media is a highlight reel. This is the whole tape.
Business owners post the revenue screenshot and the 5am alarm. Fine — I have both. But here you also get the beach week in Jersey, the two weeks of my wife's Italian relatives right behind it, the 12 pounds that came with them — and what the restart actually looks like. The highlight reel is easy. The whole tape is the useful part.
The short version of me: clean since the first minute of January 1, 2009 — not roughly 2009, the first minute. ADHD, diagnosed right after I got clean; handed a prescription I never filled. A calibration company in North Haven doing over $1 million a year, with employees who count on me. Two daughters, and Rosanna — the best decision I ever made.
I'm against pretending. I'm not a doctor, I'm not a programmer, and I never took the SATs. I'm for showing the work: the protocol I actually run — 5am, keto, an 18-hour fast, 15 to 20 grams of creatine a day — and the weeks it falls apart. What I do, not what you should do.
I've restarted more times than I can count. Diets. Training cycles. My entire life, once, with that duffel bag. The restart is the skill. Falling off isn't the story — getting back on is, and you'll watch me do it here in real time.
And I'll say the ambitious part out loud: I want to build Custom Calibration into something my uncle would be proud of — and something my employees are proud to be part of. Grow it. Buy other companies. Start new ones. Writing it all down as it happens keeps me honest — and lets you check my math.
“I didn't fix myself. I aimed myself.”
// WHERE TO START
// WHAT I'VE BEEN WRITING
The Brain
Why I'm Doing This
The first note. Why I'm done being polished in public and real in private — and what I'm going to document here every week.
Building
How I Ship Without Knowing How to Code
The recurring loop a non-programmer uses to build real software: say it in plain English, judge the result on screen, push back, ship — the failure mode included.
Live Wire.
One honest post a week — business, brain, body, and whatever I'm building. Written by me, not a content team.
No spam, no funnel, no course at the end. Unsubscribe whenever — I won't chase you.