I was tagged by my business partner Steve Outing, so here goes.
- My bachelor’s degree is in music education, but I wasn’t a musician. I was a drummer. (rim shot) I was in the marching band in high school & college. I loved it, but realized by my senior year that I didn’t want to teach. So I stuck it out, completed the degree and stumbled around for a few years before discovering the business world.
- Even though I think of software as my primary business strength, I didn’t write what I would consider to be a significant amount of code until after I turned 30. My first company was a software company, and while I had a strong role in product development, actual coding was limited to writing a few reports. I wrote some Paradox, Lotus Notes and Quattro Pro (remember that?!) code/macros back in the day, but probably fewer than 20,000 lines before I was 30.
- I’m a fairly hardcore atheist, but my wife is a recently converted Christian. The funny thing about that is, I grew up in the Baptist-dominated South while she grew up in godless China.
- I love to play soccer and have been playing indoor soccer practically non-stop every week for the past five years.
- I’m an information junkie, and I do mean junkie. So much so that about six weeks ago I had to go cold turkey and thus all the 300+ rss feeds from my feed reader because I was spending too much time on them. I resubscribed to a couple that we use internally and 3-4 others, but now there’s a high, high bar to entry to my feed reader.
And now I’m passing on the tags to Brad Feld, Christine Herron and, oh, what the hell, the Dalai Lama.