Early life:

Air Force brat, middle class, suburban

...a happy childhood

Before college:

rationalist and mystic, socialist and libertarian, scientific and artistic, religious and skeptical

...a real mess.

College/post-grad:

history (Smithsonian fellowship), philosophy, physics and math, economics

...Asked endless questions

and in the finest answers

found yet more questions

Letters in:

Engineering (aerospace), Law (intellectual property), Finance (corporate)

Worked as:

lawyer (patents), researcher (Wall Street), manager ("Main Street"), advisor (both streets), professor ("Mean streets" [just kidding about NYU, lol])

Joys:

unpredictable kids (note to future parents: you reap what you sow)

adoring wife (more than I deserve)

reading new research after they're all asleep (yea, that's my life)

Politics:

Economic Left/Right: 6.0; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.0

(Courtesy: The Political Compass)

Big fan of privacy...and transparency...go figure

Articles I've started:

The Casements

Articles I've substantially edited or re-written:

John D. Rockefeller (most rewarding [no pun intended])

Ludlow Massacre (most challenging)

Dodge v. Ford Motor Company

Libertarianism (most frustrating)

• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them"
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
• "A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file...has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
• "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."