Founder, Expedition MS | Sailor, Traveler, Innovator
Joined December 2011
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Apr 10
Netflix kicked me off the family account.
That sent my mom, my brother, and me into my late father’s old iCloud account on the 7th anniversary of his death.
What we found there stopped all three of us cold.
The @mssociety's theme this year was #MSUnseen. This essay is about a different kind of unseen.
New essay: “Thoughts on the Evening of...”
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15 Dec 2025
I could've written this as "5 Lessons Sailing Taught Me About Product Management" with bullet points and inspirational takeaways.
awaywego.substack.com/p/how-…
That would've been easier. Probably better for engagement.
It also would be very cringey.
So I wrote the honest version instead—about racing with strangers, job hunting in 2025, and what it actually means to operate well under uncertainty.
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13 Dec 2025
At 11 PM last night I found myself arguing with ChatGPT about whether Grief should have legs.
Then I had AI generate what Grief would look like if Pixar made Inside Out 3.
Seven years after my dad died from MS, I can visualize a feeling.
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13 Dec 2025
Grief isn't Sadness 2.0. It's the only emotion that can press Joy and Sadness simultaneously, creating the Bittersweet Chord.
This is why I'm building @SailAwayMS (Expedition MS)
The full story (with images): open.substack.com/pub/awaywe…
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13 Dec 2025
Sailing teaches presence, patience, and shared responsibility.
Those skills matter far beyond the water.
#Sailing #Accessibility
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7 Dec 2025
Weird thing happened buying a Christmas tree: I cried in a Methodist parking lot while a 24-foot skeleton Santa in full costume watched. Let me explain...
I was alone. Wife on work trip. Bing Crosby playing - my dad's favorite. And it hit me: this is the first time I'm doing this without him. Building the tradition instead of living inside my family's.
awaywego.substack.com?utm_so…
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7 Dec 2025
My dad died from Primary Progressive MS seven years ago. The family I grew up in doesn't exist anymore, literally. You can't lose the center of a family system and expect it to just keep going the same way. But you can build something new. Different shape. Still whole.
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7 Dec 2025
That moment in the parking lot where grief and forward motion collide is exactly why Expedition MS (@SailAwayMS, expeditionms.org/) exists. Because these aftershocks last decades, including random Tuesday moments when you're building something new while mourning what's gone.
The skeleton Santa is still haunting me, btw. 🎄
#MultipleSclerosis #ExpeditionMS #MS #Grief
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19 Dec 2024
A great Growth PM taught me: our biggest blocker isn't process or resources - it's our psychological relationship with uncertainty and risk.
I've seen these patterns across both B2B and B2C product teams.
Understanding them transforms how you operate.
Here's what I learned:
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15 Mar 2024
We live in a grief-illiterate society.
Did you know that early grief is typically defined as within the first two years after a death?
Not the first two days, weeks, or months.
That said, grief has no timeline or expiration date.
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8 Feb 2023
Debate me all you want… remote work is the shit 😂 @brexHQ
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4 Feb 2023
Excited to be working together to solve this important issue of solving traveler friction and increasing Duty of Loyalty
3 Feb 2023
Duty of care is critically vital yet lacking in many organizations. We empower you with in-app instant experts on call, ai/ml powered safety, security, location dashboard & prepaid crisis response. Let’s collaborate
#traveltech #insurtech #fintech=@insurednomads
#remote #travel
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10 Jan 2023
i love that being healthy and sober is trendy for gen z
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18 Dec 2022
I've been hearing that many Gen Z's are questioning the value of college and placing more emphasis on creating their own opportunities outside of an academic environment. What's the consensus on this? Is college as valuable as it used to be? 🤔
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12 Dec 2022
For all the fits and starts the travel industry had with AR/VR, generative AI *will actually* have a giant impact on the industry. A good lunchtime listen here from @rafat skift.com/2022/12/12/generat…
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11 Dec 2022
Family will always come above business/career. Always 🙏
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30 Nov 2022
We're talking #blendedtravel ✈️😎
When travelling for business, how likely are you to schedule holiday/vacation time around your work commitments?
#bleisure #businesstravel #businesstraveler
83%
Very likely
17%
Quite likely
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Not likely
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I never do this
6 votes • Final results
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