ch'io faccio il canto della guerra eterna Fra luce a fango. Addio, Marinetti!for I sing the song of the eternal war Between light and mud. Goodbye, Marinetti!
— Ezra Pound, Canto LXXII
1944 AD
Wir leben immer in einer Welt, die wir uns selbst bilden.We live always in a world that we ourselves construct.
— Johann Gottfried Herder, Übers Erkennen und Empfinden in der menschlichen Seele
1774 AD
Verum esse ipsum factumWhat is true is precisely what is made
— Giambatista Vico, De Antiquissima Italorum Sapientia ex Linguae Originibus eruenda Librir Tres
1710 AD
Et sic in infinitumAnd so on to infinity
— Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi
1617 AD
Le Temps VenraThe time will come
— Jean de Berry, Duke of Berry and Auvergne & Count of Poitiers and Montpensier
~1340–1416 AD
Mortui vivunt, vivi pro eis sepeliunturThe dead are alive and the living are buried by them
— Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium
~1180 AD
Omnia mutantur, nihil interitEverything changes, nothing perishes
— Ovid, Metamorphoses
8 AD
τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἀνάμνησις ἐκείνων ἅ ποτ᾽ εἶδεν ἡμῶν ἡ ψυχὴ συμπορευθεῖσα θεῷThis is a recollection [anamnesis] of those things which our soul once beheld, when it journeyed with God...
— Plato, Phaedrus (249c)
~370 BC
מַה־שֶּֽׁהָיָה֙ ה֣וּא שֶׁיִּהְיֶ֔ה וּמַה־שֶּׁנַּֽעֲשָׂ֔ה ה֖וּא שֶׁיֵּעָשֶׂ֑ה וְאֵ֥ין כָּל־חָדָ֖שׁ תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃Quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum estWhat has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new beneath the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 1:9, Kohelet (Solomon), son of David, king in Jerusalem
~450–180 BC
ἀκούοντί ποι χθονίᾳ φρενίDeep in the earth, their heart listens
— Pindar, Pythian V
462 BC
𒃻 𒌑𒄖 𒌣𒀀 𒃻𒈨𒃻𒊏níg ú-gu dé-a níg-me-gar-raIt is inconceivable that something is lost forever
— The Instructions of Shuruppak
~2600 BC
Quorum
Nel mezo delcamin dinrã uita
Mi trouai ᵱuna ſelua oſcura
Che la diriƈta uia era ſmarrita (Foligno, Neumeister/Angelini)
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
Ché la diritta via era smarrita. (Gutenberg)
Midway along the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost. (Longfellow)
— Dante, Comedìa: Inferno, Canto I
~1308-1321 AD Published 1472
Between 2018–2024, I wrote and launched flagship products for Quorum Analytics—the industry leading public affairs platform—helping drive growth from $9M to $64M+ ARR, scale the development team from 12 to 120+, and grow the company from a small bootstrapped startup to serving trade associations, advocacy groups, embassies, nonprofits, congressional offices, government agencies, over 50% of the Fortune 100, much of the Fortune 500, and 2,000+ clients globally.
As a player/coach technical lead, I mentored and served as a resource to engineers, managers, engineering directors, and the CTO, consistently solving the team's most complex engineering challenges and establishing Quorum as the best-in-class B2B SaaS software platform in the civic tech industry.
Coſi lanima noſtra incótinente che nel nuouo et mai nó fa ciò cāmino diqſta uita entra (Florence, Bonaccorsi)
[C]osì l’anima nostra, incontanente che nel nuovo e mai non fatto cammino di questa vita entra (Florence, Edizione Nazionale)
[S]o our soul, as soon as it enters upon this new and never travelled road of life (Princeton, Lansing)
LEAV routes hurricane evacuees to shelters, visualizes evacuation zone status in an interactive map, and facilitates communication between Emergency Managers (EMs) and evacuees; sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)
HVX enables Emergency Managers to update, visualize, and monitor the status of state evacuation zones in the HVX web interface; sponsored by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)