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
Truth And Forgiveness In The Time Of TikTok
Greg here - I’m trying something new! This was just published on my Substack: Brains Are Plastic. I’m working to get into a groove and a regular posting schedule there. Please head over and…
July 26, 2024Order of Operations
One of the defining binaries of my life - and the life of most every other western 21st century human - is the separation between production and consumption. Consumption has become near constant with…
July 09, 2024RV Trip Part Deux
We’re two weeks into this trip and I haven’t written a single word. This is for many reasons including starting the trip off very sick (likely COVID finally), lots of driving, having 9 kids around…
June 22, 2024Brief New Parent Advice
Someone I know just had their first child and randomly asked me “Any new dad tips?” This is someone I only know virtually, which means we use text not voice. So I took a minute to say more than a…
June 05, 2024Interesting Prompts, Part 3 (A Prompt Quine!)
Greg: ok, we’re going to try something different now ChatGPT: Sure, I’m ready for the next task. What would you like to try? Greg: Do you know what a quine is in programming? ChatGPT: Yes, I know what…
May 27, 2024Interesting Prompts, Part 2
I’ve been having some fun with GPT-4o and building some interesting prompts. Get ready for some crazy. This one has some huge blocks of text. Part 1: Processes and Memory Greg: ChatGPT: The…
May 22, 2024
There's plenty more to read too
Things I'm Reading
- Trust Me, I'm Lying- Ryan Holiday
- Plot and Structure- James Scott Bell
- A Subversive History of Music- Ted Gioia
- GOAT: Greatest Economist Of All Time- Tyler Cowen
That's 31 books so far this year.
Projects
- Brains Are Plastic - A Both/And view of understanding technology for parents - coming soon!
- 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 technology changing the way we grow up?
- Can restaurants use spreadsheets as menus?
- How do you get better at speaking?
- How can work on small projects drive family revenue?
- What does it take to write a spy novel?
Workouts I've Killed
- 0 Mile WeightTraining, 2 days ago60:00 minutes
- 1 Mile Run, 3 days ago7:22 at 7:22 pace
- 0 Mile WeightTraining, 4 days ago60:00 minutes
- 3.97 Mile Walk, 6 days ago77:21 at 19:27 pace
- 2 Mile Run, 8 days ago16:14 at 8:7 pace
Quotes Newly Discovered
- “People are starting to feel the bullshit of dollars.”
-Ephraim Rinsky - “In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin.”
-Marshall McLuhan - “Hope has two beautiful daughters - Anger and Courage. Anger at the way
things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
-St. Augustine - “I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life.
I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was
reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that
my teeth are all gone.”
-Jean Paul Sartre
- “People are starting to feel the bullshit of dollars.”