The Me Stuff

There’s a name for those dirt trails that cut across a lawn, where people ignored the paved sidewalk and walked where they actually wanted to go: desire paths. Most of my life has looked like one.

After high school I made coffee, sold used books, and taught preschool. That last one is still the best training I’ve had in explaining things to an audience that would rather be doing something else. Then I joined the Navy and spent four years in intelligence work.

When I got out, I stayed on as a civilian working for the Navy. I built a cybersecurity analysis team from scratch, and later ended up leading cyber defense for the whole U.S. military across the Pacific, an area covering about half the globe. Along the way I finished a degree in computer science.

These days I help lead a technical group of about 50 people at a research lab in Massachusetts. This fall I started a master’s in strategic communication, because the hardest problems I run into are rarely technical. They’re about getting an idea out of one head and into another.

This site is where I put the things I make when I wander off the sidewalk: small tools, animations, and graphs that are mostly jokes. You’ll find them in the Curios.

Elsewhere: LinkedIn