I'm a dad, climber, trail runner, failed philosopher, and developer. By day, I help companies solve problems with software for Convertiv.

My heart lives amongst the rocks, the snow, the community that forms in the shadow of the heights. I've lived near Boulder, Colorado on and off since 2008 - without question the best place to find balance as a climber. Eldorado canyon - the stillness of the early morning, surrounded by the silence of the rock, the rushing creek, the canyon wrens looking for breakfast.

I moved to Bozeman, Montana in 2013 to learn how to properly ice climb, and ski mountaineer. I spent six months living out of my jeep in the desert, climbing towers. I've climbed in the Himalayas, and the Cordillera Blanca, and attempted the North Face on Batian Peak of Mount Kenya.

My undergraduate work was in philosophy. My masters was from Boston College in continental philosophy. My primary reading was Kierkegaard, Levinas, and Heidegger.

The academy, as a career, was clearly fraught, and I honestly wasn't cut out for it. I loved it, but to some degree, it needs to consume you. You need to be disciplined, focused, and dedicated to it, and I just wasn't. I wanted to climb, explore, build things. I just never found the focus required to succeed at it. Writing software is a similar kind of thinking - Highly structured logic, with a much more reasonable problem space, and better pay.

I hope this site becomes a place again to write in public, if only for the discipline of the public act - the spectre of an audience as a prod to hone the work. I miss trying hard to think the problem through, and think clearly for others.