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 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

  • 2026 Goals and Systems

    Every year I look forward to this: the slow unwind at the end of the year. It takes a few days to get over the guilt of moving slower and letting go of all the normal things to hyperfocus on. The body…

    January 01, 2026

  • 2025 Review

    Another year full of triumphs and tragedies. High water and depressions. I don’t have any high flying erudite overview filled with pablum and blather. Except to say.. we didn’t do amazing on the goal…

    December 31, 2025

  • The Return of Magic

    “Many gnostics, on the contrary, insisted that ignorance, not sin, is what involves a person in suffering.” — Elaine Pagels The Window There’s a concept that gets discussed in high-IQ societies but…

    December 29, 2025

  • 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, 2025

  • 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, 2025

  • 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

There's plenty more to read too

Things I'm Reading

That's 0 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

    • 0 Mile WeightTraining, a day ago
      55:00 minutes
    • 3.63 Mile Walk, a day ago
      63:57 at 17:34 pace
    • 2.1 Mile Walk, 2 days ago
      40:10 at 19:8 pace
    • 0 Mile WeightTraining, 3 days ago
      50:00 minutes
    • 3.5 Mile Walk, 4 days ago
      60:45 at 17:19 pace

  • Quotes Newly Discovered

    • "If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders."
      -Walt Whitman
    • "The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."
      -Pope B XVI
    • “The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”
      -Chesterton
    • “Qui aime bien chatie bien”
      -French Saying