I live in Colorado, where I contemplate the future.

My website has two objectives.

Objective one is self-promotion. It is a fair assumption that you came to here to learn about me. If you don't know what I can do, if you don't know my skills, then I can't help you.

Objective two is it is a place where I explore, refine, and commit to my ideas through writing, a system I leverage that I continue to find increasingly useful.

Background

I'm an entrepreneur/engineer/investor based in Colorado. I've founded several companies. Some made lists of fastest growing companies multiple years in a row, others were expensive learning experiences, but both were valuable. Through formal education, I learned how to learn and I've taken that and ran with it. Serendipitiously exploring topics is my favorite sport and will likely consume me until my end.

Education

I studied economics at Colorado College with an emphasis in econometric modeling, systems dynamics, accounting and management science. I was fortunate to latch on to a few professors that were at the leading edge of their fields. These professors helped cultivate my interest in economics, innovation, management science, system dynamics and all the goodies that come with those second order effects, complexity theory, and the resulting behaviors.

Hobbies

You are what you eat or so the saying goes. Aside from programming and engineering, I am an avid endurance athlete, a backcountry skier, and an investor.

Programming and engineering complex systems engrains in you to think in ways you might not otherwise. It engrains the concept of second order effects and you're always thinking about the downstream effects of what you are doing.

Endurance training teaches the value of consistency and discipline. There are no shortcuts, you just have to do the work, day in and day out. Pros get better because they are consistent and disciplined.

Backcountry skiing will make you a pro at risk management because you're life depends on it. You have to be patient, you have to be paying attention and you have to plan and then you have to be ready to act when the window comes. You'll also learn a lot about how to assess your team because not everyone is going to think what we do is fun.

Investing requires all of the above, and humbles you more than anything. I find all of these activities are symbiotic and reinforce each other but are also very personal. It's what works for me.

Interests

I'm fascinated by systems. These systems can take many shapes. It could be a technical system that just works with a very eloquent effort, or a business system(aka model) that produces exceptional results. It could be a training system for athletes. Not surprisingly, they all share common elements. But when a system is done right, it creates a positive feeback loop that snowballs ultimately producing more with less.

Decades of cross domain experience, and countless hours studying have contributed my perspective on the principles of systems, and their behaviors. Naturally this has led to theories about how to best design, build, and implement complex systems. I've developed my own intuition, a pattern matching signal that spots opportunities, and warns on risks. I leverage this intuition to get superior outcomes on everything from solving complex engineering problems to analyzing investments.

I relish in details and thrive off of the process of getting to the source of truth. Nullius in Verba is a personal motto, and when I spot a rabbit hole I like to dive in head first. I've developed many of my skills because of internal need to understood the how and why about the inner workings of everything. In the framework of systems, these details ultimately make up the equations that determine the mutation of objects between states. Understanding these states and the related equations is the starting point for systems performance optimization.

Today I keep my skills sharp by maintaining my full-time status as a programmer/architect. I also manage a small absolute return fund (which will snowball), study companies in my free time, and continue to explore various technologies, not surprisingly currently with a huge focus on data, intelligence, graphs, tokens, and tokenization. It' a fascinating world out there and we continue to live in interesting times which are only going to get better and more interesting.