Hi I'm Greg. Occasionally I do things.
My kids are the best

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 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)

I've started a Substack! If you've made it this far, you should sign up!

Things I've Written

  • Kids Need Mystagogy Not Pedagogy

    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…

    August 17, 2024

  • 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, 2024

  • Order 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, 2024

  • RV 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, 2024

  • Brief 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, 2024

  • Interesting 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, 2024

There's plenty more to read too

Things I'm Reading

That's 40 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, a day ago
      40:00 minutes
    • 3.33 Mile Walk, 5 days ago
      59:39 at 17:53 pace
    • 0 Mile WeightTraining, 6 days ago
      60:00 minutes
    • 2.79 Mile Run, 8 days ago
      30:00 at 10:43 pace
    • 0 Mile WeightTraining, 9 days ago
      60:00 minutes

  • Quotes Newly Discovered

    • “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
      -Rilke
    • “Quit playing it cool. Life is too short. Be intense and passionate and mildly insane. Now, whoever's left hanging is your friend.”
      -Nick Gray
    • “We are no longer comprehensible to each other, we inhabit different systems of signifiers, and all the mediating fantasies have melted away,”
      -Sam Kriss
    • “Learning is not supposed to be fun. The primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that “10 minute full body” workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating.”
      -Andrej Karparhy