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
Splits time between Maryland and Delaware
Will choose a cigar and whiskey with friends over nearly any other activity
Still goes to church
45 and feels like a wide-eyed little kid
Like Erasmus, would choose books first over food and clothes
Wrote software or led software teams for a living for 20 years
Drove across the country in a rented RV. Twice!
Runs a lot
Lifts heavy things
Raced cars and taught others how to do it
Helped build a company from 2 to 250+
Loves building things out of (wood | words | code | ideas)
I write on Substack too
If you've made it this far, you might like it.
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2026 Goals and Systems
My systems and goals for the year, organized around health, fitness, wealth, and building a life worth living.
2025 Review
Looking back on a year of mixed results, from ditching convenience stores to using a billion tokens in Claude Code.
The Return of Magic
When the world grows too complex to model, it becomes magic. Why modern life exceeds our cognitive capacity and what that means for society.
The New Rules of Building Wealth
An investing guide for young people who want to win. The old playbook is dead; here's how money actually works in 2025.
2025 Goals
From ditching YouTube to finding conspiracies to getting visible abs. Listening to last year's failures and building toward the next ten years.
2024 Review
A good year of growth, but was it transformational? Running every day until June, 1000 pushups in May, and still chasing the wrong metrics.
Things I'm Reading
6 books finished this year
Projects
- Matreas
Modern fundraising for schools with a story worth telling.
- 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
- Lunch Weight Training, 3 days ago 45:00
- Lunch Weight Training, 4 days ago 30:00
- Lunch Weight Training, 5 days ago 45:00
- 3.99 mi Morning Walk, 6 days ago 75:00
Fresh Quotes
"You waste years by not being able to waste hours." — Amos Tversky
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." — GK Chesterton
"When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. Similarly, in the world of policing, in particular, we’ve already been rolling out live facial recognition technology, but I think there’s big space here for being able to harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals, frankly, which is what we’re trying to do." — Shabana Mahmood, current UK Home Secretary