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I'm Pete.

Personally, I'm a lifelong Massachusetts resident. I've traded basketball and skateboarding* for the golf course and fatherhood.

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My wife and kids are my life; we love swinging in our backyard and enjoying beach days in Maine.

As needed, or when I get some free time, I maintain the family cars and our lawn equipment myself (skills I picked up from my father) and dabble with a modest home-lab* for automation and local AI experiments. I enjoy the hands-on process of tinkering for my own exploration and learning.

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“Imposter syndrome is your body's response to your inability to possess success. The emotions come later. They are not the syndrome.”

“Imposter syndrome is a distraction, like so many other things, from the activities that lead to continued success.”

“I used to be fascinated by what people do with their time. Now I want to know what they're being distracted from.”

“Which is more valuable: avoiding distractions, or doing The Thing?”

“A friction-filled activity yields more lasting results; a frictionless one reaches more people. That isn't a paradox — it's a price.”

“Register your wins, however small. It is healthy, because joy is not a small thing. It is good, because a life you don't mark is a life you can't quite claim.”

“The trick is to teach. The trick is to treat learning as living — not as something separate, a burden you have to bear, and then later bear again as you apply it to your living.”

“The knowledge you think you want to gain already exists in the world. Don't rely on other things or people to distill the knowledge you want from the knowledge available to you.”

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