The personal portal

Welcome to my little garden shed where I throw all my bits and pieces that don't really fit in the house but I want to keep for later.  For example, I was sitting in at a gig in New York the other night and a friend of mine took that picture to your left. I had no idea how to play that particular song and I was about 7 martinis in but I thought I looked fabulously on top of it so I used the photo here.

I am a compulsive writer. Some say prolific but that's the noble term for the disfunction. I do many other things. Investment banking, real estate development, software, I manage a small portfolio of companies and strive for exits, I write music, produce documentary films, I write and produce content for education, build websites, book production, graphic design, and a whole lot more but it is all underpinned by writing. This is why, in those unbearable moments when people at parties ask me what I do, I respond with the indisputable but somewhat confusing vocation of "polymath." I tried some other vocations: Florist, elephant farrier, hitman, but, aside from amusing myself for a moment, nothing really fit because the awful truth is that I am that unspeakable outlier that does whatever they want. Or, more accurately, what they feel compelled to do. Write, invent, fund, design, dream, build, perform, produce, conceive, innovate, manifest... The life of the introverted extroverted. I'm a polymath. I haven't reached any Da Vinci standards as yet. I also semi-regularly perform in bands such as Blind Dog Dave and the Pirate Throng, or Drive Dogs. So this is where I bring all those bits together to help those interested to understand the wider view of the Mills.