About
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About

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Iโ€™m an entrepreneur, writer, and creator. And insatiably curious about everything.

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โ€œItโ€™s not that life is too short, itโ€™s that we fill it with too much bullshitโ€ โ€” Socrates (if he lived in modern times.)
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I find the world fascinating so it shouldn't be a surprise I have a few hobbies.ย 
โ˜• I โค๏ธ coffee. My favorite way to make it is with my beloved AeroPress.
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๐Ÿ› ๏ธ I'm really into woodworking, building furniture, etc. Which is great because...
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๐Ÿ”จ My wife and I bought our dream property on a lake ๐ŸŒ… ... which happened to have a house ๐Ÿš on it. We're now remodeling the entire thing ourselves.
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๐Ÿ” On a lark in 2020 I got chickens ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿฅš. They're awesome. We named them Kung Pao, KFC, Orange, and Ginger. We have a dark sense of humor.
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โ›ต๏ธ And our newest hobby is going to be sailing. I say going to be, because we donโ€™t have a sailboat yet. But weโ€™re working on that.
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๐Ÿ’ป And it should be no surprise that I'm also quite passionate about all things software.ย I've been in software for over 20 years.
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I took the unconventional path, landing a job as tech support, teaching myself to code on the job (Visual FoxPro and C), becoming their developer, working for big tech, all before heading to college (Go Eags!). ย 
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Over the years I've worked on many projects for a bunch of companies. I'm particularly passionate about startups or companies who operate with a startup mindset. In fact my first job was at a startup ๐Ÿš€ where we sold self storage software (it was the 90's) to over 600 customers.
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I've worked for big tech (as an orange badge at MS) and for the government. And for over 10 years I was the CTO for a cybersecurity startup that invented Cyber Risk Quantification.
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Most recently Iโ€™m the co-founder of Interweave, and the other ventures on the home page.