Biography

Hey! This is a quick look at my life. I hope it helps in getting to know me a bit better.

If I had to try and communicate who I am to someone, I think it boils down to this:

The pragmatist won within me—- I have the belief that results are what matter. Theory is fun, but we don’t have much time in life, so I feel it should be spent on moving whichever metaphorical needle is immediately most meaningful to oneself.
I’m happiest when I can just work, exercise, read, and meditate every day. I love the ritual and discipline required of these activities, and the returns they provide. Ironically, I’ve found this rigidity has made me more mentally flexible.
I live for the worthy challenges—- those stretch goals that I’m not even always sure I can hit. But that’s what makes the endeavor meaningful.

On a more tangible level, the photos below are some shots from my life over the years that I will leave as a visual biography (until I get around to writing a proper one).

Some things you’ll see:

Sketches I produced in my more artistic phase in college
A shot 30 seconds after jumping out of a plane (I did it primarily because the idea scared the hell out of me)
Some photos from ‘nights that mattered to me’
A photo of me doing some client videography work, years ago
My parent’s dog, whom I love
My favorite quasi-bodybuilding shot I have
A photo from my time at the University of Tennessee
The aftermath of some of the best wings I’ve eaten (Barrelhouse near downtown Knoxville)
An email I was proud to receive from the director of a neuroscience institute that studies trained meditators, telling me that I’d produced the highest score she’d ever seen in a measurement of brain hemisphere synchrony in the gamma frequency band on an EEG. She'd seen thousands of measurements, so I count that as a win. It’s a weird flex, admittedly. The device used was the Vilistus Mind Mirror EEG, for those interested.