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

• A Random Note on Cost of Living

  I wanted to state a brief, obvious point. I think when most people think about the cost of living, they look at maps like this and think: it’s really cheap to live in the green areas and that’s good…

  May 26, 2023

• AI Mood Affiliations

  I love throwing ideas for poems at ChatGPT. It does a good job at doggerel and a decent job at anything more. Which means it’s better than almost all of humanity and faster too. Anyway, here’s two…

  May 25, 2023

• We Need More Hemp - AI and Curated Internet Gardens

  A good friend read a post of mine on this here parochial blog mere hours after I wrote it. I asked him how he saw it so fast and this is what he said: It’s funny. I deleted my Facebook app like…

  May 24, 2023

• Anti-Bucolic

  One of my biggest critiques of the environmental movement is a kind of false optimism about the primacy of nature. There’s an underlying believe that Mother Nature knows better than humans and that…

  May 23, 2023

• Time To Build

  I’m not going to lie, I ripped this title off from an excellent book. Because like everything else, of course this relates back to a book I read. It’s time to build again. Life has seasons. Some of…

  May 22, 2023

• Thiel Answers

  Peter Thiel is renowned and vilified in equal parts: he’s one of the most rebellious members of the public intellectual clique, and he wears his non-conformity on his sleeve. Earlier this year he…

  March 28, 2023

Things I'm Reading

• The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Beginning of Infinity- David Deutsch

• Workouts I've Killed

  • 3.1 Mile Run, 4 days ago
    26:32 at 8:34 pace
  • 5 Mile Run, 5 days ago
    53:53 at 10:45 pace
  • 1.5 Mile Run, 7 days ago
    18:12 at 12:8 pace
  • 3.12 Mile Run, 9 days ago
    34:07 at 10:55 pace
  • 2.01 Mile Run, 11 days ago
    16:00 at 7:56 pace

• 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?