# Patrick Heneise

> Patrick Heneise, founder of Zentered Studios LLC, an AI and software development studio in Boulder, Colorado.

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## Pages

- [Home](https://patrickheneise.com/index.md): AI and platform engineering leadership. Writing software since 2000, the last few years putting AI to work inside a company that makes physical things.
- [Writing](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/index.md): Writing by Patrick Heneise on software, AI, travel and running a company from nowhere in particular.

## Blog posts

- [ImmigrationLayer: Dated, Cited Immigration Answers for Your AI](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/introducing-immigrationlayer.md): Every AI model has a training cutoff. USCIS does not. ImmigrationLayer gives the AI tools immigration practitioners already use a dated, cited answer instead of a guess from memory. Here is what it covers and what it leaves out.
- [The Most Difficult 8 Weeks I Can Remember](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/most-difficult-8-weeks.md): We came home from an amazing road trip on the East Coast and planned to stay in a hotel for a week or two while we found a new place to live. The next morning I got laid off. This is what the eight weeks after looked like.
- [Eleven Weeks, Nine National Parks: Camping the Long Way Round the Eastern US](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/east-coast-road-trip.md): We moved out of our rental on May 29 and drove the long way round the eastern US. Nine national parks, about 50 stops, two kids, one Rivian we charged wherever we could, and zero bison.
- [How a Broken Hand Made Me Go All In on AI](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/broken-hand-ai.md): A mountain bike crash left me unable to type for six to eight weeks. ChatGPT for dictation and Claude for coding kept me working, but the first generated PRs were a disaster. Getting the skills and instructions right took months.
- [Remote Work in Remote Places](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/remote-work-in-remote-places.md): Nearly three months camping our way across the US, mostly in national and state park campgrounds, while I kept working full days for my company. Here's the route, and the setup that solved it problem by problem: connectivity, failover, cabling, power, storage and somewhere to actually stand and work.
- [Thoughts on Privacy in 2021](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/thoughts-on-privacy.md): A summary of my thoughts on privacy, misinformation, conspiracy theories and the role Google and Facebook play.
- [How to run an Estonian company without ever going to Estonia](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/how-to-run-an-estonian-company-without-ever-going-to-estonia.md): Experiences founding and running an Estonian company.
- [Malaysia 🇲🇾](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/malaysia.md): White beaches, great diving, Orangutans.
- [Switzerland, Ukraine, Austria](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/switzerland-ukraine-austria.md): We stayed in Cyprus for the month of July, as it was the middle of the monsoon season in Asia. But Cyprus in July was HOT and August is usually HOTTER, so we decided to travel through some milder countries instead. In Zurich we visited one of our clients, in Kiev we met with some of our remote team members and in Vienna we picked up the Estonian eResidency card. Here are some more details on each destination.
- [The Pain and Gain of marrying a non-EU citizen](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/the-pain-and-gain-of-marrying-a-non-eu-citizen.md): Even though by marriage the same rights apply as for a EU citizen, the reality is often far off.
- [Bikepacking - Here’s what we learned.](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/bikepacking-heres-what-we-learned.md): Bikepacking is a new level of minimalism. Here’s what we learned on our first trip.
- [Amat Victoria Curam — Bikepacking Part 2](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/amat-victoria-curam-bikepacking-part-2.md): Amat Victoria Curam (“Victory loves preparation”) was the motto of 2011 “The Mechanic” movie and was going through my head as we arrived in Arakapas, the set destination of the day. But first how we got there.
- [Bikepacking Through Cyprus.](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/bikepacking-through-cyprus-part-1.md): 47km from Larnaca to Lefkara with a mountain bike and a laptop.
- [A Journey Through Cyprus](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/a-journey-through-cyprus.md): The past two weeks we traveled from Larnaca to Paphos twice, once for our amazing company retreat for Zentered, the second time privately with a rental car.
- [Larnaca (Cyprus)](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/larnaca-cyprus.md): Foinikoudes, Souvlaki, and low taxes.
- [How I Protect My Privacy](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/how-i-protect-my-privacy.md): Privacy is about going to the restroom and closing the door behind you. It’s not other peoples business.
- [Thailand](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/thailand.md): Since it’s a shorter timeframe than usual, I’ll summarise everything in one post. After arriving in Thailand I had mixed feelings about the country. Expectations where high, given it’s the top destination for tourists and the internet is full of white sand beaches with crystal clear water.
- [One Month in Cambodia](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/one-month-in-cambodia.md): From Siem Reap to Ratanakiri to Kep. With a short stop in Phnom Penh.
- [Kep (Cambodia)](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/kep-cambodia.md): A trip not exactly what we imaged.
- [Siem Reap (Cambodia)](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/siem-reap-cambodia.md): Temples. Temples temples temples temples and more temples. That was our weekend, the first two days in Seam Reap.
- [Being a Nomad; The first 30 days](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/being-a-nomad-the-first-30-days.md): 30 days, many adventures, many mistakes.
- [Ubud (Indonesia)](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/ubud-indonesia.md): City & monkeys. Not so many rice fields.
- [Gili Air (Indonesia)](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/gili-air-indonesia.md): Paradise on earth.
- [Canggu (Indonesia)](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/canggu-indonesia.md): Fortunately only two days in Canggu
- [Padang Bai (Indonesia)](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/padang-bai-indonesia.md): The first week as freshly baked Digital Nomads is almost over and we’re moving to the next location. Here’s my review of the first place: Padang Bai.
- [Simple accounting tip for freelancers in Spain](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/simple-accounting-tip-for-freelancers-in-spain.md): I’ve been a freelancer (Autónomo) in Spain for many years, and the one thing I learned to do right (at least I never had issues after screwing up once), is accounting for taxes (IVA + IRPF.
- [My Best of Barcelona](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/my-best-of-barcelona.md): After six years in Barcelona, here's my list of the best places and things to do (Nerd Edition).
- [The End of an Era](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era.md): I went to Barcelona in July 2011 for a short vacation. Within a week I decided to stay, found a job and moved there. The plan was to stay for a year or two, learn Spanish and then go to South America. It didn't go that way.
- [Eurotrip v2](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/eurotrip-v2.md): This is the 3rd road trip with my Sportster, the first time I went straight from Barcelona to Germany for a 3 week vacation, the second time I toured around mostly through Austria with my girlfriend and this time it was a 4 week extended, unplanned trip through the Italian Alps, with Bled (Slovenia) as final destination.
- [visualaborate](https://patrickheneise.com/blog/visualaborate.md): A project for the Media Technology MSc at Leiden University. I tried to produce art collaboratively through the phone accelerometer from participants.

## Elsewhere

- [Zentered Studios](https://zentered-studios.com): AI and software consulting, and Roadbook.
- [github](https://github.com/PatrickHeneise)
- [bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/patrickheneise.com)
- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickheneise/)
- [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/users/459329/patrick)