Hey 👋🏼 I'm Greg.
- 3 amazing kids and 1 amazing wife
- Still goes to church
- Splits time between Maryland and Delaware
- 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
- Bought our 2nd house at the beach 5 years ago and paid it off
- Drove from Maryland to California and back with the family to see the country and have a blast in a rented RV
- Runs a lot
- Will choose a beer and cigar with friends over nearly any other activity
- Like Erasmus, would choose books first over food and clothes
- 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+
- Loves building things out of (wood | words | code | ideas)
Things I've Written
The 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 Mandelbrot…
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. That’s not true. Not many people take their aba out of the closet before they…
April 15, 2024A Model of Charity - Time and Treasure
I was talking recently with a friend about all the amazing things we want to do with our lives. I’m intoxicated by my own ideas, just like everyone else, and so most of my list looks like a bunch of…
March 11, 2024Big Numbers and Natural Theology
I want to talk about two really big numbers. I know, math. Bear with me though because these two numbers are pretty wild. And they give us a good lesson about reality and the revealed nature of God…
February 12, 202410%
Congratulations! You’ve made it 10% of the way through 2024. Time moves quickly from hey!-it’s-a-brand-new-year to slipsliding right on through it. At 10%, I’m checkpointing a couple of my goals with…
February 06, 20242024 - Du mußt dein Leben ändern.
I recently had the privilege to encounter a new poem that relieved me of both my breath and my attention. That poem is called Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rilke. I had to read it over and over and over…
January 06, 2024
There's plenty more to read too
Things I'm Reading
- Death Comes For The Archbishop- Willa Cather
- Age of Revolutions- Fareed Zakaria
- Family Unfriendly- Tim Carney
- GOAT: Greatest Economist Of All Time- Tyler Cowen
That's 14 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
- 1.3 Mile Walk, a day ago23:47 at 18:12 pace
- 5 Mile Run, a day ago48:08 at 9:37 pace
- 2 Mile Run, 2 days ago23:00 at 11:29 pace
- 3.01 Mile Walk, 3 days ago51:57 at 17:15 pace
- 0 Mile WeightTraining, 4 days ago30:00 minutes
Quotes Newly Discovered
- “Curiosity has created more opportunities than hard work ever will.”
-@warikoo - “The ability to diagonalize matrices might not have been that adaptive ten
thousand years ago.. or even now.”
-Steve Hsu - “Schumpeter also laid out an intriguing albeit underdeveloped notion of
residual ideological mistakes in social and economic systems, and it is
unfortunate that economics has not pursued this idea further. Atavisms can
persist, and imperialism as an atavistic influence can persist in
capitalism, thereby giving rise to mixed impulses.”
-Tyler Cowen - “And anyway, here’s the truth:* nobody cares about your life. *They really
don’t. I’m sorry but they watch your fireworks story for half a second.
They hover over your selfie and then swipe to someone else’s. They skip
through the concert you posted. They look at your life and immediately
think about theirs. The people who actually care are the ones you don’t
need to perform or prove anything to. Strangers don’t care about you, and
that’s a fundamental truth social media platforms depend on us forgetting.”
-Freya India
- “Curiosity has created more opportunities than hard work ever will.”