Hey 👋🏼 I'm Greg.
- 3 amazing kids and 1 amazing wife
- Still goes to church
- Splits time between Maryland and Delaware
- Will choose a cigar and whiskey with friends over nearly any other activity
- 44 and feels like a wide-eyed little kid
- Like Erasmus, would choose books first over food and clothes
- Wrote software or led software teams for a living for 20 years, including some fun machine learning and model training stuff
- Drove across the country with the family to have a blast and see the country in a rented RV. Twice!
- 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)
I've started a Substack! If you've made it this far, you should sign up!
Things I've Written
Where The Monsters Live
Incentive System Design and The Path To Virtue The MAGA movement, you see, is an internet thing. It’s another vertical online community — a bunch of deracinated, atomized individuals, thinly connected…
September 14, 2025The New Rules of Building Wealth
An Investing Guide for Young People Who Want to Win Most investing advice for young people is designed to keep you safely mediocre. Save to your 401(k), buy index funds, retire at 65 with enough money…
July 23, 20252025 Goals
It’s that time again and, just like last year, I’ve already been derailed. Some bad seafood knocked me on my ass for three days and made me capable only of moving slowly or sleeping. Which means I’m…
January 07, 20252024 Review
For me, New Year’s Day is always a day of reflection of both past and future. Let’s start with the past! This has been a great year. Growth everywhere. More clarity in areas. Less in some others. But…
January 02, 20252024 Books
Ah yes, the yearly book review back for 2024. So easy Claude could write it. But don’t worry, even if you see an “ah yes” dangling at the front or a couple of hidden “delves”, this is still all just…
December 31, 2024Ten Year Goals, Part Deux
Back in 2014, I set some new Career Goals. I was tired of the usual metrics and searching for something better. Here’s what I came up with back then: I want to spend my summers, from June 1 through…
December 31, 2024
There's plenty more to read too
Things I'm Reading
- Demon Copperhead- Barbara Kingsolver
- The Strategy of Denial- Colby Eldridge
That's 28 books so far this year.
Projects
- The Furious Opposites - A Both/And view of understanding technology. Go subscribe!
- Faradash - A dashboard of foreign spending based on Foreign Agent Registration data. Vibecoded on a Tuesday.
- 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.
Things I'm Wondering
- How are phones and AI are changing the way we grow up?
- How can work on small projects drive family revenue?
- Can restaurants use spreadsheets as menus?
- How do you get better at speaking?
- What does it take to write a spy novel?
Workouts I've Killed
- 4.09 Mile Walk, a day ago73:25 at 17:56 pace
- 2.99 Mile Walk, 2 days ago54:40 at 18:13 pace
- 4.65 Mile Walk, 3 days ago83:08 at 17:51 pace
- 0 Mile WeightTraining, 6 days ago25:00 minutes
- 2.49 Mile Run, 6 days ago25:00 at 10:1 pace
Quotes Newly Discovered
- "Call a boy a gentleman and watch his shoulders straighten. Call a girl a
lady and watch her spirit turn graceful. Humanity was brought into
existence by God speaking words into the void of the universe. We tend to
become what we are called."
-Miyah Byrd - "All addictions are a low-level search for God.”
-Carl Jung - "How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself?"
-Epictetus - "Watch your thoughts, they become words;
Watch your words, they become actions;
Watch your actions, they become habits;
Watch your habits, they become character;
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."
-Lao Tzu
- "Call a boy a gentleman and watch his shoulders straighten. Call a girl a
lady and watch her spirit turn graceful. Humanity was brought into
existence by God speaking words into the void of the universe. We tend to
become what we are called."