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 go to church
• Split time between Maryland and Delaware
• Bought a pontoon boat to hang out, fish, and drink beer
• 42 and still feel 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
• Bought our 2nd house at the beach 5 years ago and paid it off
• Runs a lot
• Like Erasmus, would choose books first over food and clothes
• Raced cars and taught other people how to race cars
• Helped build a company from 2 to 200+
• Love building things out of (wood | words | code | ideas)

Things I've Written

• Our Dumpster Fire Record

  Twitter, the media, and your neighbor Deborah with the bad dye job all agree: the sky is falling and the world is ending. Is that true? Somebody from 1980 would look around today and not recognize a…

  November 29, 2022

• Where Tigers Live

  Here’s a fun google search for kids: “Which country has the most tigers” The answer is India, which is what Google tells us without even a link. And then there’s a gazillion links that back that up…

  November 22, 2022

• Intentions and Power

  I had a few long drives in the last couple weeks, so I decided to actually get all the way through Balaji’s epic 8 hour podcast interview with Lex Fridman. I’m glad I did - Balaji spins out ideas at…

  November 18, 2022

• Consumption Is Still Consumption

  I just watched an excellent interview of Peter Thiel, given by Peter Robertson of the Hoover Institute. It’s a dive into the political alternatives being offered by the American political parties…

  November 16, 2022

• The Talent Trap

  Lots of people want to be good at stuff. Like Lando Norris. Lando is about to be the lead driver for the McLaren F1 team at just 22. He’s an incredibly gifted driver with mountains of natural…

  October 13, 2022

• Judgement

  It is so easy to cast judgement. Judgement is dangerous for one obvious reason and one rather insidious reason. Judgement means you’re looking at other people and doing a comparison. We can’t even…

  October 06, 2022

Things I'm Reading

• The Deficit Myth- Stephanie Kelton
• The Network State- Balaji Srinivasan
• One Minute Out- Mark Greaney
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich- William Shirer

• Workouts I've Killed

  • 2 Mile Walk, a day ago
    32:34 at 16:16 pace
  • 3.41 Mile Run, a day ago
    28:32 at 8:22 pace
  • 1.65 Mile Walk, 3 days ago
    29:23 at 17:46 pace
  • 0 Mile Crossfit, 3 days ago
    10:00 minutes
  • 0 Mile Crossfit, 4 days ago
    15:00 minutes

• 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?