About Me

I enjoy spending time with family, writing, being in nature, reading history, watching movies, traveling, and tinkering with technology.

During the work day, I help with sales and growth at Newspack, an opinionated platform to help publishers succeed online.

Previously, I’ve been a front-end developer, agency leader, consultant in the early days of blogs, author of a best-selling book, and groundskeeper with a college facilities department.

Random Facts

USS Constitution, Gordon Grant (1927). Paper on watercolor

Here’s a painting of The USS Constitution, a symbol that represents ingenuity and fortitude to me. To learn about the fascinating story about the founding of the US Navy, I recommend Dawn Like Thunder

My Personality Profiles

2024 Mantra

My mantra for 2024 is “Holding myself accountable first

Love Language

My Love Language is “acts of service

Enneagram

My Enneagram is Type 4, the “Individualist”

CliftonStrengths

If you’re not familiar with Gallup’s CliftonStrengths StrengthsFinder self-assessment, I recommend you take it. My StrengthsFinder themes are:

  1. Input: I enjoy collecting and learning information to help me gain a wider perspective and make better decisions.
  2. Restorative: I focus on identifying what is specifically wrong with a given situation and how I can help solve it.
  3. Connectedness: I empathize with people’s unique situations and believe that many of us share common challenges and goals.
  4. Strategic: I like to continue to think about how to solve problems, even when the answer isn’t obvious.
  5. Individualization: I focus on people’s individual attributes and how they can work together to achieve goals.

Disclosures

If I ever write about something with which I have a business relationship, I’ll note that in the post itself, either inline or at the beginning or end.

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