Shane Waters
I'm Shane Waters. I live in Wabash, Indiana, where I help county offices, family firms, and a farm company older than the interstate put new technology to work without breaking what already works.
I got here the long way around. I started one of the first true crime podcasts in 2008, spent eighteen years building it into a network, and picked up the habit of asking the questions nobody else was asking. Turns out that's most of the job.
- 2008
- started Foul Play from a dorm room in Indianapolis
- 2021
- five years on the board of Downtown Wabash, Inc., later its vice president and, for one of them, interim executive director
- 2024
- founded Margin, AI systems for county offices, city halls, and family firms
- 2026
- technology seat at a 90-year-old farm management company; finished the coursework for an M.S. in computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder
- 2027+
- the classroom, maybe. We'll see.
Recent writing
- Nobody adopts software2026-09