Personal

I know in August 2026 it's a little lame to claim a website is under construction but I am rapidly expanding this autobiographical page with memories of my past and it's currently more a stream of consciousness than something entirely readable. Even when I am done with my first pass, I plan to continually be adding more memories as they occur to me.

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Preface Why I'm Writing This

How someone who hates to write came to write of his own free will

Chapter 1 The Early Years

Nebraska, Virginia, and more Virginia

Chapter 2 Elementary

Arkansas, Maryland, Korea (for a summer), and Rome (New York)

Chapter 3 Jamesville-Dewitt

Middle school and high school in Dewitt, New York

Chapter 4 Undergrad at MIT

Life along the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chapter 5 GMGC, OMKT, ARBA

Silicon Valley startup life at General Magic, Open Market, Ariba.
Jennifer and my wedding in Ohio.

Chapter 6 Stanford PhD

Research at the Farm

Chapter 7 Google

Android

Appendix A Before my time

Stories about my parents, grandparents, ...