Hi. I grew up in North Carolina, studied CS at Centre College in Kentucky, spent a year in Japan on the JET Program, and have been living in San Francisco since 2009 or so.

Since coming out here, I've gotten to work at some great companies, and some of them were even good when I worked there! Starting with Yahoo! BOSS, Digg, SocialCode, Uber and now Stripe.

A long time ago, I also cofounded a really misguided iOS gaming startup with Luke Hatcher. We made thousands of dollars over six months, and spent the next six years trying to figure out how to stop paying taxes. It was a bit of a missed opportunity.

The very first iteration of Irrational Exuberance was created the summer after I graduated from college, and I've been publishing to it off and on since. Early on there was a heavy focus on Django, Python and Japan; lately it's more about infrastructure, architecture and engineering management.

It's hard to predict what it'll look like in the future.