I live in the Pacific Northwest. Have twin 5 year olds, boy/girl, one autistic, and a baby on the way. I studied literature and writing. One time I won the Norman Mailer Nonfiction Award. Interested in stuff related to the human experience, the unexpected, the arms race for our attention; interested in behavioral economics, ethically complex things, jungian personality theory, mystical experience and myth and the relationship between the empirical and human belief. I'm an ex mormon who was deeply disturbed to discover that what I believed wasn't true at 19 and super disappointed to this day to find out that it is highly unlikely I will ever become a god, but it's truly hard to shake the idea I developed early on that if I keep learning and working on myself, forever, well logically...

So I kind of assume there isn't a forever, but hey, I could be wrong. My wager is to try to develop a habit of learning to last my lifetime. Lately the main battle is preventing distraction and doing less of this kind of shit, like filling out this profile.

Intrigued by the costs of processed sugar on a slowly evolved taste for sweetness, the costs of pornography on the human experience, the idea of porn as the domestication and restructuring of sexuality, and the cost of our other entertainments: top 5 lists, social networking, etc. I've been off facebook a few years, hate twitter, and have slowly begun to appreciate a few online communities, of which, oddly enough, glitch is one.

I'm unemployed with -$300 in my bank account today, but admittedly I don't care about that. I just am done taking jobs where I know I'm not the right hire. Last time I worked was as a sales rep at an inc 500 startup and a year and a half later I was one of three executives, but I got fired when I tried to make my boss step down and also remove his sibling. I expected to get fired but I wanted the company to do what it was trying to do and I could tell it wasn't going to. It was sort of a short stacked A-low situation and I think I did the right thing. I don't always do the right thing though. Ethics isn't easy.

My favorite author is Wendell Berry, who gives arguments the necessary time and who hasn't ever not convinced me of anything.