Hi I'm Greg. Occasionally I do things.
My kids are the best

Hey 👋🏼 I'm Greg.

I'm a guy on the internet with too many interests. Most of them orbit around learning and writing and software and kids and books and business. This is the place I come to try to string words and ideas together and hold myself accountable.
Credentials are sooo boring. I like this list better.
  • 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)

I've started a Substack! If you've made it this far, you should sign up!

Things I've Written

  • 2025 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, 2025

  • 2024 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, 2025

  • 2024 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, 2024

  • Ten 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

  • Kids 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

  • Truth And Forgiveness In The Time Of TikTok

    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…

    July 26, 2024

There's plenty more to read too

Things I'm Reading

That's 1 books so far this year.

  • Projects

    • Brains Are Plastic - A Both/And view of understanding technology for parents - coming soon!
    • 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 technology changing the way we grow up?
    • Can restaurants use spreadsheets as menus?
    • How do you get better at speaking?
    • How can work on small projects drive family revenue?
    • What does it take to write a spy novel?

  • Workouts I've Killed

    • 2.9 Mile Walk, 7 days ago
      55:22 at 19:2 pace
    • 2.74 Mile Walk, 9 days ago
      49:31 at 18:3 pace
    • 3.5 Mile Walk, 10 days ago
      64:02 at 18:15 pace
    • 4.45 Mile Walk, 12 days ago
      81:57 at 18:23 pace
    • 0 Mile WeightTraining, 25 days ago
      60:00 minutes

  • Quotes Newly Discovered

    • “A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse.”
      -Epictetus
    • "Feeling split by a million different possibilities is an amazing waste of time."
      -Sherry Ning
    • "A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognised, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round."
      -Philip Larkin, Church Going
    • "The antidote to this abundance of information is distillation: figuring out which information is important and discarding the rest. But distillation is downstream of interrogation: if you ask the right questions, the information filters itself."
      -Jack Raines