MY NAME IS ALEX

[Intro: sparse beat, piano, distant crowd noise]

My name is Alex

I’ve been a few things

Probably gonna be a few more

[Beat drops]

[Verse 1]

Born with a question
Been chasing it since
How does the world work?
How do we make sense?

From a kid making games
With a screen and a dream
To the radio booth
Learning how to build a scene

Marketing, music
New York nights
Teaching people money
Trying to get the numbers right

Politics taught me
Everybody sees
A different kind of future
From a different set of needs

Then I found code
And the whole thing clicked

You can imagine a world

Then build that shit

[Pre-Chorus]

I never had one lane
Never wanted one role

Every new obsession
Put another window in my soul

So when somebody asks me
“What exactly do you do?”

I laugh

How much time you got?

[Chorus]

My name is Alex

I write
I build
I teach
I speak

Put an idea in my head
And I’m losing sleep

Books on the shelf
Code on the screen
Another plane leaving
For somewhere I’ve never been

Data and agents
Stories and songs

If I find something worth learning
I’m bringing you along

My name is Alex

That’s the simplest truth

I learn what I can

Then I give it to you

[Post-Chorus: group vocals]

Build it!
Teach it!

Write it down!

Learn it!
Share it!

Pass it around!

[Verse 2]

Now I talk lakehouses
Iceberg underneath

Open tables
Open catalogs
Open architecture beneath

Parquet in the files
Arrow moving fast

Polaris at the catalog
Building systems meant to last

I’ve written the books
I’ve stood on the stage

Turned metadata diagrams
Into another printed page

Dremio on the badge
Developer Relations

My job is translating
Complicated innovations

But technology alone
Was never really the mission

Give somebody understanding
And you give them permission

To build something different
To question the default

Sometimes education
Is the beginning of revolt

[Chorus]

My name is Alex

I write
I build
I teach
I speak

Put an idea in my head
And I’m losing sleep

Books on the shelf
Code on the screen
Another plane leaving
For somewhere I’ve never been

Data and agents
Stories and songs

If I find something worth learning
I’m bringing you along

My name is Alex

That’s the simplest truth

I learn what I can

Then I give it to you

[Bridge: instrumental drops to piano]

But that’s only the professional page

Scroll down

[Verse 3: warmer, more melodic]

I write about machines
Then write about being human

Write about intelligence
Then question how we use it

Economics
Philosophy
Fiction after two

Sometimes the best way to find yourself
Is making something new

I make music because logic
Cannot say everything

Some thoughts need a paragraph

Some need strings

Some need distorted guitars
Some need rhyme

Some questions need a lifetime

And that’s fine

[Build]

I’ve changed careers
Changed cities
Changed my mind

Left old versions of myself
A couple exits behind

But I don’t see contradiction
When I look across the years

I see curiosity

Refusing to disappear

[Beat intensifies]

[Verse 4]

Sixty-five books
And I’m still taking notes

Still filling little documents
With unfinished quotes

Still opening repositories
Just to see what I can make

Still convinced a crazy idea
Is sometimes worth the chase

Pangolin
Iceframe
Tools nobody asked for

Sometimes building the doorway
Comes before the demand for the door

AI agents
Graphs
Open specifications

I like taking scattered pieces
And finding their relations

Maybe that’s the thread
Running through the whole career

Take something complicated

Make the picture clear

[Pre-Chorus]

And no
I don’t know where it ends

That might be my favorite part

You don’t need the whole map

When curiosity can start

[Final Chorus: huge]

My name is Alex

I write
I build
I teach
I speak

And I’m still getting excited
Every seven days a week

Books on the shelf
Code on the screen

Trying to make tomorrow
A little more open than it’s been

Data and agents
Stories and songs

There are too many things worth knowing
To stay in one box for long

My name is Alex

And if you’re asking what I do

I learn everything I can

Then I give it back to you

[Break]

Technology empowers

[Group vocals]
EMPOWERS!

Creativity liberates

[Group vocals]
LIBERATES!

[Lead]

And optimism says

We’re not done yet

[Final Build]

So give me another problem
Give me another town

Give me another whiteboard
I’ll start drawing arrows down

Give me another audience
Another thing to explain

Give me another strange idea
Bouncing around my brain

I’ll write it

Build it

Break it

Learn

Teach it

Share it

Watch it return

Because the point was never knowing
More than everyone else

The point is what becomes possible

When we teach each other well

[Final Chorus: choir]

MY NAME IS ALEX!

I write!
I build!
I teach!
I speak!

I’ll probably find another thing
By the end of the week!

[Choir]

WRITE IT!
BUILD IT!
TEACH IT!
SPEAK!

[Lead]

There’s too much world out there

To only be one thing

[Outro]