A Personal Volume

Grant Boldt

Founder and author. Further distinctions available on request.

  • Founder
  • Author
  • Polymath
  • Grounded
The author, at rest. Frontispiece

No. 01 · The Subject

An ordinary man, on paper.

Humble, and quietly certain it shows.

A candid study of the subject. Plate I

No. 02 · The Profession

A working life, mostly in software.

Builds things other people depend on. The rest tends to speak for itself.

The subject, mid-vocation. Plate II

No. 03 · The Discipline

Fluent in seven languages, four of which compile.

Largely self-taught, and comfortable in the parts of the stack that resist it.

Hands at the work. Plate III

No. 04 · Selected Works

Rising Above Second

Author of Rising Above Second, a memoir on skipping the second grade. Regionally, a bestseller.

Rising Above Second, first edition. Dust jacket
The author. Plate IV

No. 05 · Beyond the Desk

A man of letters, and of rigorous leisure.

The desk was never the whole of it. Off hours run on the same unbothered competence as everything else.

The subject at leisure. Plate IV

No. 06 · By the Numbers

The record speaks, modestly, for itself.

A partial accounting. Most of it left out, for length.

Grade levels skipped
One. The second. Formative.
Memoirs published
One. Widely regarded, locally.
Languages spoken
Several, with conviction.
Rooms read, correctly
Nearly all of them.
Self-assessments, humble
An unbroken streak.
The honoree, mid-accolade. Plate V

No. 07 · The Worldview

Read the room. Trust the mirror. Proceed accordingly.

A working philosophy. Offered at no charge.

The subject, in contemplation. Plate VI

No. 08 · The Standing Invitation

The door is generally open.

Correspondence welcome. Approachability has never been the obstacle.

A parting portrait. Colophon