Greg Olsen

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.

Family

3 amazing kids and 1 amazing wife

Beach

Splits time between Maryland and Delaware

Fire pit

Will choose a cigar and whiskey with friends over nearly any other activity

Church

Still goes to church

Adventure

45 and feels like a wide-eyed little kid

Library

Like Erasmus, would choose books first over food and clothes

Computer

Wrote software or led software teams for a living for 20 years

RV trip

Drove across the country in a rented RV. Twice!

Running

Runs a lot

Lifting

Lifts heavy things

Racing

Raced cars and taught others how to do it

Company

Helped build a company from 2 to 250+

Building

Loves building things out of (wood | words | code | ideas)

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I write on Substack too

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Things I've Written

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Things I'm Reading

→ Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong

11 books finished this year

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Projects

  • Matreas

    Modern fundraising for schools with a story worth telling.

  • Dealsplit

    A real estate project - coming soon!

  • The Furious Opposites

    A Both/And view of understanding technology.

  • Faradash

    Foreign spending dashboard based on FARA data.

  • CollegeValue

    Compare colleges by earnings vs. debt.

Things I'm Wondering

  • ? How are phones and AI changing the way we grow up?
  • ? How can 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?

Recent Workouts

  • Lunch Weight Training, 1 day ago 40:00
  • 3.31 mi Morning Walk, 2 days ago 60:16
  • 1.8 mi Afternoon Walk, 3 days ago 30:00
  • 3.19 mi Afternoon Run, 3 days ago 35:00
  • Afternoon Weight Training, 4 days ago 45:00

Fresh Quotes

“solvitur ambulando” — Latin phrase
“Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god… is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.” — David Foster Wallace
“When you’re Catholic and you don’t know what to do you go for a long walk.” — Arthur Brooks

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