The Reset

I'd been building software since I was a teenager. Companies since my twenties. At 29 I was running marathons, founding Puzzlepart to build Business Apps for SharePoint, while invoicing consulting hours in the same week.

Then ulcerative colitis put me in hospital for eighteen months. Four surgeries and trying all the gizmos at the hospital, shrinking me down to 50% of my original body weight.

That experience re-based everything.

What came back was the same drive — but patient, grounded, deliberate. Balance became the thing to strive for. I started sitting Vipassana in annual silent retreats. My attention to attention is a key feature now.