About
Ycaza

Before the internet was a household word, Ycaza spent a decade in the graphic arts as a production designer — learning precision, craft, and the discipline of making things that communicate clearly and beautifully. That visual foundation never left.

Starting in 1994 with ISDN — when the internet was still being invented — Ycaza went on to build thousands of workstations and servers, and helped construct multiple DSL and fiber access companies and hosting companies from the ground up. Few people alive have seen the internet grow from dial-up to data center from the inside.

Ycaza cooked professionally in a 4-star restaurant in the Hamptons — an experience that instilled a permanent belief that great food, like great engineering, is about mastering fundamentals and then making them effortless. That's the spirit behind the 10 Minute Dad cooking lessons.

As a licensed finance and insurance agent, Ycaza learned that most people are never taught the basic rules of money — and that this gap costs them dearly. The 10 Minute Dad finance lessons exist to close that gap: the Rule of 72, inflation, compounding — things everyone deserves to know.

Ycaza is the writer and producer behind multiple albums of symphonic swing jazz house music — the Symphony in Yt series. Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube, the music is as hard to categorize as the person who made it: orchestral in ambition, rhythmic in soul, and entirely its own thing.

For 37 years, Ycaza has been active in the 12-step community — not just participating, but mentoring hundreds of people toward better, freer lives. This work is the quiet foundation beneath everything else: the belief that people can change, that knowledge matters, and that nobody should have to figure everything out alone.