For the last 25 years, I've built companies and communities in the Bay Area and Northern California, bringing people together around meaningful conversations about art, technology, religion, politics and philosophy. I've started a variety of businesses and served on the boards of several organizations.In 2012 I founded Good People Dinners, a Bay Area community that fosters substantive discussions, usually over food and drink. These dinners, corporate salons, overnights and retreats bring together professional chefs and speakers on a wide range of topics. GP Dinners has produced over 900 events and counting.https://www.gpdinners.com/founding-principles.htmlIn the fall of 2020, with my wife Karin Johnson, we purchased a former summer camp in the mountains near Yosemite National Park. Camp Earnest's 21 acres include an apartment, a bunkhouse, several cabins, two yurts, glamping sites with bell tents, a dining lodge, a bathhouse with a Finnish sauna and a cedar hot tub, an outdoor amphitheater, a year round creek and meadow and a meditation and movement hall.https://www.campearnest.com