Each round offers great opportunities and difficult challenges. You face them head on, execute with confidence, and manage the disappointments with dignity. A golf course is not a place where perfection lives. It is a place where you manage misses, adapt to adversity, and find a way to get the ball in the hole anyway. That pursuit of better without ever arriving at perfect is what keeps me coming back.
Through business and pleasure I have traveled extensively across North America. I have visited Switzerland and Japan. We have family in Thailand where we return often and love exploring the rest of Southeast Asia including Myanmar, Malaysia, and Cambodia. Mark Twain said it best. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Exploring new places and meeting new people keeps me endlessly curious.
I train to stay in shape for golf and to keep up with the demands of getting older. Nothing is more satisfying than watching the hard work pay off on the course. Outside the gym, my wife and I hike regularly and take advantage of everything Colorado offers. The mountains make it easy to stay active and there is always another trail worth climbing.
A year ago I could not write a line of code or design a graphic. AI tools changed that. Today I am building a golf performance app, designing workout programs, and developing tabletop RPG worlds. Professionally I use AI to improve the sales process, accelerate research, and eliminate the grunt work. AI is an intern not a manager. Give it the right direction and it will do the leg work.
My wife is a librarian so books have always been part of our life. A few have shaped how I think professionally. Extreme Ownership for leading by example. The Challenger Sale as the foundational sales text. Man's Search for Meaning for how you show up in the most challenging situations.