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
The 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, 2024Kids Need Mystagogy Not Pedagogy
Greg here - I’m trying something new! This was just published on my Substack: Brains Are Plastic. I’m working to get into a groove and a regular posting schedule there. Please head over and…
August 17, 2024
There's plenty more to read too
Things I'm Reading
- Demon Copperhead- Barbara Kingsolver
- The Phenomenon of Man- Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
- The Strategy of Denial- Colby Eldridge
That's 22 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
- 2 Mile Run, 3 days ago17:40 at 8:49 pace
- 2.44 Mile Walk, 4 days ago43:28 at 17:46 pace
- 4.99 Mile Walk, 5 days ago86:29 at 17:18 pace
- 2.79 Mile Walk, 7 days ago50:47 at 18:12 pace
- 1.74 Mile Walk, 9 days ago32:09 at 18:25 pace
Quotes Newly Discovered
- “He refused to cheapen the atoms by turning them into bytes.”
-Tom White - "Beauty will save the world."
-Dostoevsky - "I’ve found it, or rather, I stopped looking, and it found me—in the
silence that doesn’t need to be filled, in the life I used to think I had
to earn but which turns out, like grace, cannot be earned at all.
So, what should you do when you’re madly in love?
Nothing.
You should do nothing and just be. You should stare at him like a fool. You
should ruin your routines. You should forget your ambitions for a moment,
let your heart sing and let your soul have the day off. You should eat
breakfast slowly. You should let the laundry pile up. You should rest your
forehead into the nook of his neck and say, “You are here, for now, where
everything is perfect and exactly where it should be.”
When you are madly in love, the most radical thing you can do is nothing.
You shouldn’t care anymore. You have dropped the pen. There is no better
story. There is only this, and this is enough. Let the world go on
spinning. You, on the other hand, have already arrived."
-Sherry Ning - "Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each
generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not
fit this."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “He refused to cheapen the atoms by turning them into bytes.”