The clearest picture of me is probably this. A few years back I ran the Grand to Grand Ultra — 170 miles across the Utah and Arizona desert, self-supported, a week of food and gear on my back. No crew, no resupply. Just what I could plan for and carry. That's how I tend to do most things.
It's why, when I build software, I build it myself instead of just directing it. Lately that's meant Alto.golf, a social golf platform I designed and shipped end to end. Before it, two decades running product and technology — most recently VP of Innovation and Head of Technology at IGN Entertainment, and before that CPO at Xclaim, where we took a marketplace from zero to four trillion dollars in assets under management. The details are on LinkedIn if that's what you came for. The short version: I've always worked where the strategy meets the actual building, and I've never liked being far from the making of the thing.
Away from work it's the same instinct in different terrain. I train for the next hard thing — ultras, Ironman, whatever's next on the calendar. This September I'm heading back to the Grand to Grand to work the course as a volunteer. More recently I trained with my local Community Emergency Response Team, the FEMA-backed disaster-readiness program, and I've been working through the coursework at FEMA's Emergency Management Institute. I'd rather be the person who knows what to do when things go sideways than the one waiting to be told. I travel when I can, and I plan to keep doing it.
Right now I'm between chapters, on purpose. Twenty years in, I'd rather be clear about what's worth doing next than just reach for the next thing. If that resonates — professionally or otherwise — I'm easy to find.