Hello! 👋🏻

My name is Alex.

Whether we’ve already met, or you’re new in these parts, thank you for stopping by!

Since you’re here and you’re already reading this, I’ll take a moment to introduce myself.

▶️ Progress

I find it fascinating to explore and understand how everything came to be the way it is today here on Earth. Because we humans only live about 100 years, little changes in the grand scheme of things so we think this is how it has always been. But when you zoom out and see how much has changed in a very short time, you start to realize just how powerful we each are and how much opportunity we have been given to make our world the way we want it to be.

I’ve been very blessed during my 42 years here. Until recently, my life was very average compared to my peers, but when I took a break and started looking at it, I recognized just how privileged I am. I was born white, in the United States and raised with a mildly Christian upbringing attending a Methodist church from the age of -14.

💝 Family

I was raised as an only child, but with older brothers from my dad’s first marriage. I spent my time living in my own world and playing with my neighborhood best friend Sean and friends from day care. I carved trails in our back yard that eventually led to a treehouse my dad built. I sold wrapping paper to everyone in my neighborhood to raise money for my school. I made business cards to hand out to neighbors to get work doing odd jobs like raking leaves and baby sitting in middle school. My grandma and mom made my Halloween costumes I went trick or treating every year with my best friend Sean who lived down the hill. My parents rang a literal cow bell to summon me home from wherever I was playing in the neighborhood.

I had all my friends 7-digit phone numbers memorized and

During my time here, I have traveled far and wide, to every continent except Antarctica and I’m blessed to have made friends who now live all over the planet. Maybe you’re already one of them or maybe I haven’t met you yet, but I’m glad you’re here.

⏱️ Age

I’m a member of the Xennial generation, people born between 1978 and 1984. We consider ourselves special because we were kids in the analog era and we were the youngest members of the digital era.

We knew how to use a rotary phone and stayed up late talking to our friends on land lines, but we also we also sent our friends coded messages on pagers, bought colorful covers for our Nokia cell phones, and were among the first iPhone owners (we skipped the blackberries, they were for old business people).

My parents were both librarians, and it turns out that I am as well, I just didn’t realize it until recently.

I’ve spent my life organizing things, from a variety of collections I kept as a child including Beanie Babies, Where’s Waldo books and merch, coins, stamps, and magazine ads for Absolut Vodka.

I spent my career building and implementing systems to help organizations get organized.

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I like to keep a tidy home at my apartment in Seattle on Capitol Hill

I grew up as an only child, but with several wonderful older brothers from my

I live in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America.

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When I turned 40, I announced to my friends that this wasn’t me getting old or over some hill.

Instead, I said, it was the beginning of my second 40. In my head, I was sort of joking, but I have now lived that as my truth as I have set out to rediscover my self in the years since 2020, when I quit my job to start my own company.

💖 You

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