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I'm a full-time dad, librarian, and anthropologist living in Southern California.

• • The source of my greatest fulfillment and joy - and the greatest use of my energy and resources - is raising my three kids. Through them I've also learned the joy of cooking and sleeping. My primary concern is raising them well.
• • I run The Park Database, an online museum and library for leisure and entertainment attractions. As a consultant in this line of work I've advised developers, movie studios, conglomerates, and governments.
  • ◦ Some realized projects: Legoland Korea, Studio City Macau, Grand Wilshire Los Angeles, Cosmopolitan Resort Las Vegas, Kidzania Doha, Kidzania Seoul, and Kidzania Singapore.
  • ◦ Some unrealized projects: a spherical floating casino, a resort made entirely of marble, an assault-weapons theme park, a theme park in the shape of a guitar, a new metropolis where transport would be via canals, some living zoos.
• • I wrote the only book on theme park manias. This is a rarely talked about phenomenon when people of a country collectively lose their minds over theme parks.
• • I did a stint as an analyst at a long-short Asian equity hedge fund. After almost two years untangling layers of subsidiaries and assets in family-owned enterprises, SOEs, and REITs all across Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and China, my flash of insight was to buy the FAANGs instead. I left, and I did.
• • I spent my early career in real estate in Los Angeles pre-GFC. After the crash, I personally made over 5,000 residential and commercial property tax appeals in California with roll value reductions of around $1 billion.
• • I've lived in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Philadelphia, and spentseveral years as an adult living in Hong Kong, Seoul, and Taipei. One of my greatest pleasures in moving back to the States was rediscovering the existence of clothes dryers and good Mexican food.
• • I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley.