VOL. 04 — APR. 2026 — RIDES FROM DALLAS · BUILDS IN RURAL AMERICA STILL RIDING

I've been on a bike since 1983.

Everything else is what happened between rides. Sold lemonade at nine. Mowed lawns at fourteen. Built companies in landscaping, retail, online, Bitcoin. Building an AI factory now. The bike is how I reset between chapters. It's the only thing that's never changed.

CALIFORNIA · BY BIRTH
NEW ORLEANS · BY TENURE
TEXAS · BY LICENSE, 2020

RIDING SINCE 1983
HOME · DALLAS, TX
CURRENT BUILD · AI FACTORY · RURAL AMERICA
CURRENT DOG · SHADOW

NEXT RESET · TOMORROW, 5:30 AM

02 The Receipts

Every chapter of my life has been separated from the next by a bike. Lemonade to lawns, I rode. Lawns to landscaping, I rode. Landscaping to retail to online to Bitcoin to AI — I rode. The bike doesn't change. The reset it gives you doesn't change either.

Strava · 2023 → Now 56 · Still Climbing

33,243mi

1.3× around the Earth

20.9×

Mt. Everests · 607,747 ft

773

Rides · and counting

1,668hr

A second full-time job

Annual distance · compounding patience

2023 7,706 mi · 199 rides

2024 9,056 mi · 211 rides

2025 12,057 mi · 274 rides ← peak

2026 4,424 mi YTD · on pace for 13.3k

03 Between Chapters

Three years ago I wrote what I could see. I left the last line out because I knew what it would take. So I did what I've done since I was fourteen — I got on the bike. Three years later, the thing I was holding back is the thing I'm shipping now.

RECEIPT — APR 2022

Chad Everett Harris

Posted 3 years ago · LinkedIn

"I see a future reliant on technology that pushes the advancement of humanity. Driven by innovation that creates opportunity and economic impact."

—I left this part out—

[and with that... I will change the world.]

Investing in #ElectricalInfrastructure is key to powering rural America.

Building #DataInfrastructure in rural areas opens doors to new business opportunities.

With #ComputeInfrastructure, rural America can be on par with urban areas.

— That wasn't a vision statement. It was a spec sheet.

I've been on a bike since 1983.

From a lemonade stand in 1978to an AI factory in 2026. The bike is the thread.

From a lemonade stand in 1978
to an AI factory in 2026. The bike is the thread.