The Journal
Thoughts on faith, leadership, and community — lessons gathered along the way and passed on to the next generation.
The last few weeks have been some of the busiest I can remember. Two new companies launched from Cheyenne within about a week of each other, I sat down for a long conversation on a podcast, and a few pieces of writing went out that capture ideas I care about.
October 20, 2026 · 3 min read
For the decisions that really matter in someone's life, I have come to believe that pressure usually costs more than it gains, and that building trust with customers depends on giving them room to decide.
October 14, 2026 · 4 min read
Before Atlantic Tech existed, most of my business education happened in the gaps of an ordinary workday. I was driving for Lyft, and whenever I had free time, I was online, looking for opportunities and trying to understand how people were building something of their own.
October 8, 2026 · 4 min read
When people ask me about the biggest lessons from building Atlantic Tech, my answer always starts with people. Strategy, tools, and timing all matter, but the right team determines whether any of them succeed.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min read
When I was starting out, I'd say yes to nearly anything that kept the lights on. These days, choosing the right clients starts with one question: do I believe the product does what the brand says it does?
September 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Scrolling arrives in pieces small enough to seem free. A minute in line, five minutes before bed, and ten between meetings never feel like a decision about how to spend the day. Add them up, though, and most estimates land at well over two hours of social media time a day.
September 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Roughly a third of the American food supply goes unsold or uneaten, and when that food is meat, an animal died for a meal nobody ate. That should bother us more than it does.
September 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Saying no to the wrong opportunities has shaped my company as much as saying yes to the right ones. Nobody asks entrepreneurs about the opportunities they turned down, mostly because there's no headline for a deal that didn't happen.
September 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Everyone told me my twenties were the years to move fast, take chances, and clean up the mess later. Nobody told me that speed and judgment aren't the same. I believed the countdown for a long time. I don't anymore.
September 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Before I ever gave back to Cheyenne, Cheyenne gave first. People tend to ask me about the giving side of running my business. Fewer people ask what came before that: the support I received from this community long before I had anything to offer in return.
September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Peter Kazan on the filter he uses to decide what earns his attention as Atlantic Tech scales, and the meetings he no longer takes.
August 31, 2026 · 5 min read
Mentorship in business is usually treated as something senior people do once they've already arrived, a favor granted from the top down. I've never experienced it that way. The leaders who shaped how I lead reached back for someone else before they'd finished their own climb.
August 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Growing up, I never called it a leadership philosophy. It was just how things worked. You judged quality by whether something held up, not by how it looked the moment you first saw it. I think of it as exactly that now, and it has shaped nearly every decision I've made building a company.
August 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Long before Atlantic Tech existed, I worked under a shop foreman who had no formal reason to invest in me. I was young, unproven, and easy to overlook. He didn't overlook me. He explained why things were done a certain way instead of just telling me to do them.
August 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A revenue number, a headline, a milestone slide in a deck, none of those things carry meaning by themselves. They are just evidence that something happened. Whether that something mattered depends entirely on why you were building it in the first place.
August 4, 2026 · 4 min read
I've spent years building a company around data intelligence, and the biggest lesson has nothing to do with technology. It's about learning to listen before I act, in faith and in business.
July 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Wyoming's reputation runs to open land, energy, and agriculture, which makes it easy to miss what's been building in its galleries, theaters, and public squares. The state's arts scene is growing, and in Cheyenne, I can see it from my own downtown.
July 27, 2026 · 4 min read
The standard playbook for a technology startup is well-documented. Raise fast, rent your tools, launch loud, fix the foundations later. I ignored most of it. I've built in ways the industry keeps calling unconventional, while my results keep getting called sensible.
July 19, 2026 · 4 min read
Most founders talk about culture. I talk about conviction. I'm the founder and CEO of Atlantic Tech, the data intelligence company I started in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 2020, and my faith isn't a value I put on a slide.
July 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Every December, I organize a holiday campaign that delivers toys and essential supplies to families across Cheyenne. It is one of the more consistent things on my calendar, and one of the least publicized, and both of those facts say something about how I think about giving in general.
July 12, 2026 · 4 min read
I grew up in a blue-collar family, and in the early years of my entrepreneurial life, I knew real financial uncertainty, the kind where you count carefully and hope nothing unexpected breaks. Even in those years, I gave what I could.
July 8, 2026 · 4 min read
When young entrepreneurs ask me for advice, I reach for the things I wish someone had told me back when my finances were uncertain, and Atlantic Tech did not exist yet. Those years, roughly the hardest of my working life, produced almost everything useful I have to pass on.
July 2, 2026 · 4 min read
The best mentors I've known never handed down answers from above. They walked alongside, asked hard questions, and learned as much as they taught.
June 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Faith and business are often treated as separate rooms in the same house. In my experience, the house only stands when they share a foundation.
June 2, 2026 · 1 min read
Every December, Atlantic Tech delivers toys and essentials to local families. It started small. It became the truest measure of what we're building.
May 12, 2026 · 1 min read
