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We thought it would be good.

The ballots have arrived and I haven't filled mine out yet.

I hope I never lose the drive to build.

Maybe it's getting older.

I haven't written anything here about artificial intelligence, even though I use it every day.

My dog is named Charlie.

I have been reading Where the Red Fern Grows, one chapter each night, to my kids.

Today I went to my high school reunion.

About six years ago I announced on this very blog that I was done with venture capital.

Hey, I've been writing.

I'd like to think that I take nothing for granted, that I'm always present and appreciative and live life to the fullest.

Marketing is increasingly central to who I am and what I do as an entrepreneur.

I started fundraising again for Shovels.

I wrote about the difference between platforms versus point solutions a while ago.

I became a better entrepreneur in the last few months.

My most pretentious title yet!

I have not written here in a few months.

If I do this right, the way I want to do it and believe that I can do it, this will be a big year for me.

"Are you mentoring anybody?"

There's a million things I haven't done... and probably never will.

A friend suggested that I watch the first season of Genius series, which profiles Albert Einstein.

When we first bought our little house in the suburbs out here in Contra Costa County, I'd never heard of "unincorporated" communities.

The ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data framework has been around for a long time.

This month I plan to push my endurance to the outer limits.

I was twelve years old in 1994.

I just started learning about nitrous oxide (NOx).

*Note: this is my first blog post written with an assist from ChatGPT.

When I described what I'm doing now to a good friend, he chuckled and said, "Guess you're going to have to write a new forward for your book!"

A long time from now, with any luck, I will be very old.

A little while ago, I made a website for Slo Carbon.

As I take the CEO helm again with ({filename}business-evaluation-shovels.md), I've been thinking more about what kind of CEO I want to be.

After the success of Diablo Valley Tech Innovation conference, for which I chaired and did the bulk of the organizing, I was approached by a friend in the local sustainability community.

This winter break has been a big one for Shovels.

I like B2B data businesses.

I wrote only two posts about Blue Boy here about Blue Boy, our first dog, a lovable chocolate Labrador who left us too soon.

If you read this blog, I mean really parse through it and find my stuff from 2017 and 2018, you'd be surprised to know that I'm eagerly, enthusiastically, passionately fundraising for my startup this time around.

This has been a wild year.

TL;DR I'm now working on Shovels.

Everybody who met Blue said he was the best dog they'd ever met.

I'll try to briefly recap the last day of my thirties.

Here's a bit of contrarian advice: Be nice to your competitors.

*Edit: Ahoy is now live so I've included links. * I'm still working on the web3 project I ({filename}my-foray-into-web3.md).

I recently read this great short article about how to get startup ideas by Jared Friedman, a partner at YC.

Okay, here we go.

About a million years ago I wrote a blog post called "Hacking for Sales."

This is a prequel to the longer post about our ({filename}how-we-did-our-home-addition-and-remodel.md).

I met an old friend for lunch in Malibu.

The wheelbarrow cleverly combines two ancient technologies, the wheel and the lever, into a very useful device.

"Children's book author" is not something I aspired to put on my resume.

I leave Diablo Valley College each Tuesday and Thursday exhausted but on the equivalent of a mental high.