1.  I’m a former US Air Force officer that worked in intelligence and nuclear war planning (not much demand for those skills in the legitimate economy).
2.  I was an amateur cryptographer in high school at the same time I was an actor.
3.  I’m funny. No, really.

Only one?

Getting a chemistry set and a telescope for Christmas ... followed by not blowing up the basement.

Actually, I have four:
1.  Being a solo pilot of an airplane in instrument conditions.
2.  Getting the rails wet in a sailboat.
3.  Beating my best time racing to the top of Mt. Tam.
4.  Writing a captivating scene in my next technothriller (novel).

• Tips from the Trenches: The Collective Wisdom of Over 100 Professional Services Leaders
• Aviation Weather
• Mariner’s Weather
• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
• Making Silicon Valley by Christophe Lecuyer
• Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc Seifer
• Defying Gravity, The Parallel World of T. Townsend Brown by Paul Schatzkin
• The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-45
• Project Portfolio Management by Harvey Levine
• Managing IT as a Business by Mark Lutchen
• McTeague, A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris
• The Riddle in the Sands by Erskine Childers
• Body of Secrets Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency by James Bamford
• Theory and Technique of Playwriting by John Howard Lawson
• A Study of the Drama by Brander Matthews
• Freytag’s Technique of the Drama
• The Handbook of Sailing
• IFR Refresher
• Attain by Surprise Edited by David Nutting
• The Search for Gravity Waves by P. C. W. Davies
• Organizing Scientific Research for War by Irvin Stewart

Green flash of sunset at the controls of a seaplane somewhere near the equator with the knowledge of cool libations and warm friends ahead.

Too many to list.

Novelist-adventurer-Hollywood Screenwriter

A chance remark that consulting was an intellectually stimulating occupation with attractive compensation.

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