About Me
I’m one of the founders and the COO of Market Hardware , my third start-up. A short ‘corporate’ bio is on the Market Hardware site .
I can lose myself in software and systems development, but I wear those identities lightly—I know many people who do it much better than I do.
I’m a sucker for beautiful simplicity applied, whether it’s in an old technolgy, an application interface, a Not-So-Big house, or a toothpick cradle protecting an egg.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom
I’ve been a volunteer crew member on the oldest active sailing ship in the world ; I teach (very) occassionaly at Belle Haven Marina on the Potomac just south of Old Town Alexandria; and I will gladly travel great lengths to go sailing with friends.
I currently live unrepresented in the District of Columbia.
I had a stretch of several years of well-meaning altruism, the highlight of which was working at the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolence in L.A. There, I was assistant to the founder and Executive Director, Glenn Smiley, one of Dr. King’s tutors in nonviolence.
Glenn was 83 at the time and embodied for me a pragmatic, strategic, effective nonviolence and connected me intimately to heroic personalities and a pivotal period of history. On my ‘someday’ list is to research and write about his life. (I’ve started that with a few introductory posts .)
I’m married to a wonderful woman, my Exuma Moor, and together we’re raising our daughter who was born in the spring of 2006.
