About

Hi. Obviously, I’m Dan. The short form version of me is this: I’m a dad to two awesome boys, I have an awesome partner, and we live together in Minneapolis with our complicated-but-wonderful little family.  We’ve got too damn many pets — two dogs and a clusterfuck of cats.  I’m a giant nerd.  Browse around in this blog and you’ll figure that out pretty fast.

Autodidact Polymath

I make it a point to always be learning, which you’ll figure out pretty quickly here, if you decide to follow along. I’ve got some formal education (a B.A. in Creative Writing), and will continue to pursue another degree, but I also spend a lot of time on my own, learning.

The other thing I’m enjoying is digging deep into disparate areas of knowledge — while I make my living as a software engineer, I also pursue skills outside that area. I read deeply in all manner of areas, including biology, neurosciences, and linguistics. I’ve learned to build bicycle frames from scratch, and I’m working on learning how to play guitar and how to draw.

Brain Stuff

I’m not neurotypical — I’m afflicted with ADD, which has proven to be, well, challenging.  I’ve taken care to find ways to compensate for that, including a bunch of time in therapy as well as experimenting with various systems to keep myself productive.  It also makes me jump from subject to subject as my interests wax and wane — though that’s been less of a problem since I hit my 40’s. I also suspect I’m slightly autistic, too, based on symptoms, and the fact that my older child is. I should probably seek some sort of diagnosis.

Blog Subjects

• productivity
• bicycling
• travel
• books