I tend to be even-tempered, and I've been told I have a calming effect on people. Funny, that's not how I think of myself exactly. I see myself more as having some residual east-coast edge, and especially like the back-and-forth of lively discussion. I like exploring, whether it's about ideas, people, places or situations, and take pleasure in making things happen.

I am curious, optimistic, and kind

I'm a researcher and entrerpreneur, but I carve out plenty of time for socializing, film, Italian lessons, music, reading, and travel. Been paying more attention to the political culture lately too. Yecch. But I've been more and more coming around to the idea that it's important.

Taking a complicated issue or situation, unpacking it & putting it back together in a new way. I also have an knack for conversation, musical improvisation and language-learning.

Blue eyes and relaxed manner.

Bookstores are catnip, and I've got a few decades' supply of stuff on my shelves, mostly non-fiction (history, politics, languages, science, books about writers & the arts). Right now I'm reading Nudge (Thaler & Sunstein). But literary fiction is definitely in my future. For music, sometimes I make my own - piano or electronic keyboard - and I've tried my hand at other instruments. Movies: classics are always good - fast-talking comedies of the 30s & 40s, drama, some adventure, if there's some cleverness to it (the Italian Job comes to mind). I see a lot of documentaries too, historical, political, Food-Inc-type stuff.

Coffee; books; smart & emotionally generous people; novelty & challenge; a touch of aesthetic quality in my environment; warm human connection.

Is that 6?

Two things (1) how people handle situations, both practical & emotional - how to get a situation from A to B; (2) where our culture & society are headed. Big topics! And then there's always the question of where I put my iPhone... can't seem to find it again....

Decompressing, enjoying the company of friends.

You've got to be kidding...!

you are warm, smart, upbeat, curious, and adventurous!