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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:

Articles I've substantially edited or re-written:

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

Ludlow Massacre (most challenging)

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."