A Few New Rooms in the House

Fast Track Femme started as a place for me to write about transition.

That will not change.

The heart of this publication is still the same: reinvention, identity, womanhood, grief, surgery, absurdity, loneliness, sex, family, clothes, bodies, voice, ageing, and the strange business of becoming yourself in public after half a century of pretending not to.

In other words, all the light, breezy topics.

But I am not only transgender.

I know. Shocking.

I am also a software architect. A systems thinker. An investor. A former endurance athlete. A person who has spent decades building things, modelling things, automating things, breaking things, recovering from things, and occasionally trying to understand ordinary human emotions by turning them into spreadsheets, which is apparently not how everybody does it.

So I am adding a few new Substack sections.

Not because Fast Track Femme is changing into something else.

More because the house has more rooms than I have been using.

Bodywork - Diet, training and exercise for transgender women

This will be for training, diet, recovery, surgery, ageing, rebuilding, discipline, and the practical business of living in a body that has been through quite a lot and still insists on having opinions.

Not fitness influencer content.

No “five hacks for torching belly fat”.

No collagen powder.

No pretending that buying a matching gym set counts as a personality.

Just the real stuff: training, pain, food, recovery, hormones, age, surgery, and the strange intimacy of maintaining a body that has been rebuilt more than once.

There is another reason this section exists too.

Become.

Amongst other things, I am working on Become., a training platform for transgender women.

I had forgotten, slightly, how far it had come until I looked at it again properly. It is no longer just an idea scribbled in a notebook while I mutter darkly about glutes. It is becoming real software.

The basic idea is simple: most fitness advice was not written for us.

It was written for men who want to get bigger, cis women who want to get smaller, or influencers trying to sell collagen powder from kitchens they do not cook in.

Trans women often need something much more specific.

We may be rebuilding our bodies after years of testosterone. We may be on HRT. We may be trying to reduce upper-body dominance, build lower-body shape, protect posture, recover from surgery, train around breast implants, manage dysphoria, lose fat, preserve strength, or simply feel physically at home in ourselves for the first time.

That needs more than a cookie-cutter programme.

Doing generic upper-body hypertrophy work with a transitioning woman on HRT who is trying to soften a V-shaped back while building glutes is, frankly, ridiculous.

Become is my attempt to build something serious instead.

You tell it what kind of body you are going for. You upload photos so it can make a starting read of your body composition. You show it your training space and it identifies the equipment you actually have. You tell it your schedule, your cardio reality, your constraints, your history, and what you will realistically do.

Then it builds the programme around reality.

Not fantasy.

Not what you “should” do.

What you can actually do, with the body you have, the equipment you have, the time you have, and the woman you are trying to become.

It uses AI, but not in the shallow gimmicky sense. The interesting bit is the methodology underneath: body-shape goals, training history, equipment access, posture, atrophy needs, glute development, weight loss, recovery, and the strange set of priorities that often matter specifically to trans women.

The nutrition side is not there yet. That will come.

But the training platform already looks pretty fucking cool, and I will probably share the odd screenshot here as it develops.

Because this is not separate from Bodywork.

This is Bodywork becoming software.

The Machine Room

This is where I’ll write about AI, software engineering, automation, agentic workflows, productivity systems, architecture, and the increasingly strange business of managing machines that are clever enough to help, but not clever enough to be left unsupervised with matches.

It’s also where I’ll write about Relay, the software system I’m building, my own synthetic mega-company, designed to stop me becoming the bottleneck and keep my little army of AI workers busy 24 hours a day

This will not be “AI will change everything” nonsense.

I cannot bear that stuff.

I’m interested in what actually works. What breaks. What changes when AI becomes part of serious technical work. What happens to software development when the “team” includes tireless synthetic workers that need instructions, boundaries, review, memory, and delegated authority.

Basically, the professional side of my brain, which has been gagging to write about for ages.

Risk & Conviction

This will be for investing, markets, Bitcoin, technology stocks, macro, liquidity, conviction, stupidity, leverage, psychology, and the dangerous difference between having a thesis and being an idiot with a chart.

Again, this will not be financial advice.

Dear God, no.

I am not your financial adviser. I am not even entirely sure I should be my own financial adviser.

But I do think about markets a lot, and some of that thinking has shaped my life in very real ways.

The main thing

You do not have to read everything.

That is the point of sections.

Some people are here for the transition essays. Some may be interested in AI and software. Some may want the investing pieces. Some may want the body stuff. Some poor souls may want all of it, in which case I can only apologise for the inside of my head.

But it all comes from the same place.

The same person.

The same voice.

Fast Track Femme was never really only about being transgender.

It was about becoming.

And becoming does not stop at surgery, clothes, hair, voice, or documents. It leaks into everything. Work. Money. Health. ambition. Discipline. Technology. Love. Taste. Systems. The whole strange machinery of trying to build a life that actually fits.

So yes, there are now a few new rooms in the house.

The front door is still the same.