“It’s not that life is too short, it’s that we fill it with too much bullshit” — Socrates (if he lived in modern times.)
I find the world fascinating so it shouldn't be a surprise I have a few hobbies.
☕ I ❤️ coffee. My favorite way to make it is with my beloved AeroPress.
🛠️ I'm really into woodworking, building furniture, etc. Which is great because...
🔨 My wife and I bought our dream property on a lake 🌅 ... which happened to have a house 🏚 on it. We're now remodeling the entire thing ourselves.
🐔 On a lark in 2020 I got chickens 🥚🐣🐥🐓🥚. They're awesome. We named them Kung Pao, KFC, Orange, and Ginger. We have a dark sense of humor.
⛵️ And our newest hobby is going to be sailing. I say going to be, because we don’t have a sailboat yet. But we’re working on that.
💻 And it should be no surprise that I'm also quite passionate about all things software. I've been in software for over 20 years.
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!).
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 🚀 where we sold self storage software (it was the 90's) to over 600 customers.
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.
Most recently I’m the co-founder of Interweave, and the other ventures on the home page.