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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.

Latest blog post

Book review: Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley, by Brent Underwood

tl;dr: Fans of the YouTube channel will enjoy the stories, revelations, and confessions in this book...

My wife and I started watching the Ghost Town Living YouTube channel during the pandemic. The first episode takes place at the very beginning of the lockdowns, when Brent travels from Texas to his newly purchased ghost town, Cerro Gordo, in the mountains above Death Valley. While we were huddled inside staring at screens, here was this intriguing guy on a mission to do the seemingly impossible: resurrect a remote ghost town without running water. Brent was documenting his struggles on video and sharing them with the world. It’s reality television, but literally of the constructive rather than destructive variety (with one major exception)...

A book cover, listing the title, subtitle, and author's name, with a picture of a man in jeans, a jacket, and a baseball cap, with his hands in his jacket pockets, standing amongst some dried out brush and dirt in front of a few dilapidated wooden structures beneath a partly cloudy sky


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