About Me
Welcome! If we’ve not already met, I’m JP Mattia. I started this blog mainly out of peer pressure, which really means that after writing some posts about restaurants, a couple of commenters wrote “You should write some essays or a memoir”. I’m 100% sure everyone who wrote that now regrets it.
A brief outline of my life: I grew up in southern Connecticut, left to attend MIT in 1982, and didn’t leave until 1996. While that’s not a career path that would suit everybody, it was exactly the right life for me. Along the way, I worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for some years, and collected a small pile of degrees. I also collected a wife, Laura, who collected her own pile of MIT degrees.
After some years in commercial R&D (Texas Instruments and Bell Labs), Laura and I set out for the land of startups in Silicon Valley. These days, we run a video delivery business for advertisers, which puts content into 6000+ TV, cable, and digital outlets.
Much of my free time is spent outdoors hiking and generally being healthy, in order to undo some of the crazy behavior from my youth.
I hope you enjoy the tales herein.
