Basic Information
- Phone Number: (610) 322-6069
- Birthday: June 20th
- Where I live and with whom: San Francisco, CA with my fiancee, Kate
- Name of my wife: Kate Kerames
- Name, ages, and genders of kids + their primary interests: N/A
- Name and type of pets: N/A
- Closest ~2-3 friends: Samiur Rahman, Ben Gilbert, Zach Boerger, Nils Root, Brett Northart.
- What I do for fun:
- I love to read science fiction, fantasy, and history. I’ve worked my way through most of the Hugo and Nebula lists. I’m also working through the Awesome Sci-Fi and Awesome Fantasy lists. I majored in history for the first couple years of college, and I regularly read biographies and histories of different periods.
- I occasionally write a newsletter on the the challenges of organizing people (management!). I write everything myself, and I also design all the graphics (and my website).
- Ever since a major back injury in 2022, fitness is a huge part of my life. I workout in my home gym 3-5 times a week.
- I love video games, especially RPGs and strategy games. Some of my favorites are Baldur’s Gate 3, Civilization, and Age of Empires.
- I love to meet up with my friends and talk about the stuff we’re learning about and are interested in.
- I love eating and drinking at all the wonderful restaurants San Francisco has to offer (and anywhere else when we’re visiting!)
- A topic I like to talk about:
- Urban development. I always follow local real estate blogs, know what buildings are in various stages of approval, and am overall fascinated by watching the city around me grow and change.
- Making stuff better. I have a borderline unhealthy relationship with wanting to make everything work better. I’m always upgrading our house, my workflow, my website, my everything. Hopefully that’s a part of why you pay me though 😊
- What I liked to do for fun as a kid:
- I loved riding bikes around the neighborhood with my friends, playing hide and seek, causing minor chaos. I also loved playing video games (Ocarina of Time was my favorite), drawing, helping my Dad build stuff (decks, finished basements, furniture, landscaping projects).
- Where I grew up:
- 0 - 11: Denver, Colorado (~15-20 mins south of Denver)
- 11 - 17: Audubon, Pennsylvania (~45 mins northeast of Philly)
- 17 - 22: Columbus, Ohio (for college at Ohio State!)
- 22 - Present: San Francisco, CA
- Names of parents & siblings:
- Dennis & Meg Sparks
- Emily Dietterich (4 years older than me)
- A personal dream I have: To be a good enough parent that my kids what to hang out with me when they’re out of the house.
- A system and/or tool I use for remembering to-dos:
- My system starts with a pad of sticky notes on my desk. I hate clutter. So, at the end of the day, the sticky notes that hold easy-to-complete tasks get processed, and the bigger, gnarlier ones stay on the desk until they’re done. I make a rare exception here and there to move something into my Notion Actions Database if it’s something that can wait to be done but does ultimately need to get done.
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