I’m the creator and Founder of Bookship, a social reading app, and The Hawaii Project, a personalized book recommendation engine. As you can guess, I’m pretty passionate about books. And startups. and music. I live in Hawaii but spend a lot of time in the Boston area.
Previously I was ceo and co-founder of goby, a personalized recommendation engine for finding fun things to do. After goby was acquired by Telenav (NASDAQ: TNAV), I became Head of Product for Telenav.
Before all that I did time at Endeca, PTC, Netezza, Evans & Sutherland in a variety of R&D, professional services and business development roles. When I’m not obsessing over work, I’m a proud husband and father of two great kids, love to play tennis, am a compulsive reader and book collector, and am really into way too many different kinds of music.
(What’s with the Viking you might ask? While the vikings were known to split a skull or two, I mean more the verb than the noun, as in “to go adventuring” in the sense of the Old Norse fara í víking. I’ve always been interested in the vikings and started using viking2917 as a handle to avoid spammers way back when, and have just kept using it….)
about this blog#
This blog is created with Hugo and the wonderful Blowfish theme created by Nuno Coração, with significant modifications. It set in the Fraunces typeface.
I migrated from a Wordpress blog containing nearly 20 years of writings using SchumakerFM’s Wordpress-to-Hugo exporter. Thank you! I took inspiration from a few other blogs as well, thank you to the creators: Chester How, Olivier Ifrah, Ram Iyer, Gloria Lo.
I used Michael Welford’s shortcode for responsive images, which I hacked up to suit my needs and blog structure.