Hey 👋🏼 I'm Greg.
- 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)
Things I've Written
The Last Minute
“If you wait until the last minute, it only takes one minute.” I love this. I love it a lot. Strangely, very few other people in my life feel the same way. My wife doesn’t think it’s funny (she’s a…
April 29, 2024The Raytrace Problem
When I was a kid, I got Bryce 3D for my birthday. I was fascinated by computer art and I thought this program was the shit. It had mathematical ties back to fractal geometry and Benoit Mandelbrot…
April 16, 2024Qua qua Qua
Yesterday I was sitting in Mass thinking about the word qua. There may not be a less used three letter word in English. That’s not true. Not many people take their aba out of the closet before they…
April 15, 2024I Want A Lambo
Hot take: Maybe not all motivations need to be noble or righteous. Here’s some more material personal motivations (absenting the more virtuous and spiritual motivations like sainthood drawing myself…
April 12, 2024A Model of Charity - Time and Treasure
I was talking recently with a friend about all the amazing things we want to do with our lives. I’m intoxicated by my own ideas, just like everyone else, and so most of my list looks like a bunch of…
March 11, 2024Big Numbers and Natural Theology
I want to talk about two really big numbers. I know, math. Bear with me though because these two numbers are pretty wild. And they give us a good lesson about reality and the revealed nature of God…
February 12, 2024
There's plenty more to read too
Things I'm Reading
- Under The Banner of Heaven- Jon Krakauer
- Age of Revolutions- Fareed Zakaria
- GOAT: Greatest Economist Of All Time- Tyler Cowen
That's 17 books so far this year.
Projects
- 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.
- Technology For Parents - Charting a course for parents to navigate technology for their children - coming soon!
- Slower Lower Charcuterie - coming soon!
Things I'm Wondering
- How are phones and technology changing the way we grow up?
- What do people actually need out of college?
- How can more people enjoy two houses?
- How can work on small projects drive family revenue?
- What does it take to write a spy novel?
Workouts I've Killed
- 4.05 Mile Run, a day ago87:58 at 21:42 pace
- 2.59 Mile Run, 2 days ago25:30 at 9:49 pace
- 5.01 Mile Run, 3 days ago62:30 at 12:27 pace
- 3.32 Mile Walk, 4 days ago51:32 at 15:31 pace
- 2.99 Mile Run, 5 days ago38:08 at 12:43 pace
Quotes Newly Discovered
- "Nothing seems more conformist or more servile to me these days than the
hackneyed mythology of 'revolt'."
-Rene Girard - “When you look into your child’s eyes, you see yourself, but it’s a vision
of you unstained.”
-Tim Carney - "The culture of liquid modernity has no 'populace' to enlighten and
ennoble; it does, however, have clients to seduce."
-Zygmunt Bauman - “Curiosity has created more opportunities than hard work ever will.”
-@warikoo
- "Nothing seems more conformist or more servile to me these days than the
hackneyed mythology of 'revolt'."