Hey šš¼ I'm Greg.
- 3 amazing kids and 1 amazing wife
- Still goes to church
- Splits time between Maryland and Delaware
- Will choose a beer and cigar with friends over nearly any other activity
- 43 and feels like a wide-eyed little kid
- Wrote software or led software teams for a living for 20 years, including some fun machine learning and model training stuff
- Drove from Maryland to California and back with the family to see the country and have a blast in a rented RV
- Like Erasmus, would choose books first over food and clothes
- Runs a lot
- Raced cars and taught other people how to race cars
- Has 3 half-written messes that look like novels if you squint.. at some point a finished novel will be on this list!
- Helped build a company from 2 to 250+
- Bought our 2nd house at the beach 5 years ago and paid it off
- Loves building things out of (wood | words | code | ideas)
Things I've Written
Gentleman Farmers
I have this recurring idea of a gentleman farmer in my head. This farmer owns many acres, stretching across the hills. He loves the land. He nuzzles the horses down in the horse farm and feeds themā¦
May 15, 2024Start A Book Club
I started a book club with a couple of friends. 10/10 would recommend. Most book clubs read fiction. Most book clubs also seem to be a directed reason to get together socially. Both of those are greatā¦
May 14, 2024Narnia
āOohā said Susan. āIād thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lionā āSafe?ā said Mr Beaver ā¦āWho said anything about safe? āCourse he isnāt safe. But heāsā¦
May 06, 2024The Last Minute
āIf you wait until the last minute, it only takes one minute.ā I love this. I love it a lot. Strangely, very few other people in my life feel the same way. My wife doesnāt think itās funny (sheās aā¦
April 29, 2024The Raytrace Problem
When I was a kid, I got Bryce 3D for my birthday. I was fascinated by computer art and I thought this program was the shit. It had mathematical ties back to fractal geometry and Benoit Mandelbrotā¦
April 16, 2024Qua qua Qua
Yesterday I was sitting in Mass thinking about the word qua. There may not be a less used three letter word in English. Thatās not true. Not many people take their aba out of the closet before theyā¦
April 15, 2024
There's plenty more to read too
Things I'm Reading
- Hadji Murat- Leo Tolstoy
- Age of Revolutions- Fareed Zakaria
- GOAT: Greatest Economist Of All Time- Tyler Cowen
That's 19 books so far this year.
Projects
- CollegeValue - Compare colleges and majors based on how much money graduates make versus how much debt they accrue. Based on open-source data from the Department of Education.
- Technology For Parents - Charting a course for parents to navigate technology for their children - coming soon!
- Slower Lower Charcuterie - coming soon!
Things I'm Wondering
- How are phones and technology changing the way we grow up?
- What do people actually need out of college?
- How can more people enjoy two houses?
- How can work on small projects drive family revenue?
- What does it take to write a spy novel?
Workouts I've Killed
- 0 Mile WeightTraining, a day ago20:00 minutes
- 2.59 Mile Run, a day ago30:00 at 11:33 pace
- 4.25 Mile Run, 2 days ago45:45 at 10:45 pace
- 1 Mile Run, 3 days ago8:10 at 8:10 pace
- 5.63 Mile Walk, 4 days ago106:31 at 18:54 pace
Quotes Newly Discovered
- "Nothing seems more conformist or more servile to me these days than the
hackneyed mythology of 'revolt'."
-Rene Girard - āWhen you look into your childās eyes, you see yourself, but itās a vision
of you unstained.ā
-Tim Carney - "The culture of liquid modernity has no 'populace' to enlighten and
ennoble; it does, however, have clients to seduce."
-Zygmunt Bauman - āCuriosity has created more opportunities than hard work ever will.ā
-@warikoo
- "Nothing seems more conformist or more servile to me these days than the
hackneyed mythology of 'revolt'."