When, years ago, I was envisioning the places I'd go to meet the girl of my dreams, the digital realm didn't make the list. Perhaps I thought I'd find her while SCUBA diving on some perfectly unreal reef or on a swashbuckling adventure somewhere in the Caribbean. Or perhaps, OKCupid just hadn't been invented yet, and the e-Harmony commercials of the time just creeped me out.

But here I am now, sorta suspecting that the digital realm might be the place, after all.

So what of me?

I love to make people laugh. When they neglect to laugh, I encourage them to do so at gunpoint. That usually helps.

I am in perpetual awe of the human story, and I sometimes suspect that we are nearing its climax.

I once pursued dreams of being a magazine journalist, but have evolved beyond them. Though the road from journalism to where I am now professionally was long and occasionally harrowing, I love where it ended up.

Once, I raised a puppy for The Seeing Eye. My motivations were a mixture of legitimate altruism and a desire to experience the basic joys of raising a baby dog. The dog's name was Dillie and she was the smartest, most joyful puppy I've ever known. If she hasn't retired by now, Dillie is leading a 70+ year-old blind woman through the streets of Manhattan.

I'm originally from New York City, but I'm in love with San Francisco. It's just so damn beautiful here, even with the cold-ass summers.

For my main thing, I do content marketing at an awesome startup. In case you're like "WTF is content marketing?" it means means I write, make videos, and generally am responsible for narrating the company's story for the world.

I also sometimes write about the future of technology.

Through it all, I'm on a mission to find truth, justice and the American Way. My efforts thus far have been complicated by the fact that these three things may be going in opposite directions.

Playing with dogs.
Playing with words.
Making peace between warring factions of bombardier beetles.
Hunting with Dick Cheney without getting shot in the face.

More often than not, it's my deep voice. I'm not always good at modulating, so sometimes you'll hear me booming from across the room when I'm overly excited.

I'm working on it.

Fiction: Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude, Oryx and Crake, The Corrections, 1984, The Diamond Age, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, pretty much every line of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Nonfiction: Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The New Yorker.

Music: -- Electronic -- Burial, Chance's End, The Cinematic Orchestra, Bonobo, Royksopp, DJ Shadow, RJD2, Emancipator, The Glitch Mob. 90's Hip-Hop – Wu-Tang, 2Pac,, Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, Snoop, Mos Def, Cunninlynguists; Classical -- Mozart, Beethoven, Pergolesi.

Movies: O Brother Where Art Thou, The Big Lebowski and all of the Coen Brother's movies except Ladykillers and Burn After Reading. Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men, Princess Bride, Terminator 1 and 2. Wall-E and every nature documentary that David Attenborough ever made.

1. Stimulating conversation.
2. An oxygen-rich atmosphere.
3. A connection to the internet.
4. Most of my neocortex.
5. Memories of summer camp.
6. Five is close to six.

How to live in the present. How to be better at the things that matter. How to stop caring about the things that don't.

That a 2Pac song made me cry.

You have a romantic heart but a logical mind.