About Matt Kolon

• This is my personal site, in place of most social media. It’s much better this way.

• My email is matt@kolon.org. I’m also boingit.88 on Signal.

• Thank God I met my wife, the remarkable artist Patty Hudak, in Brookyn in 1991.

  • Our offspring are limited to Carl Kolon and Nellie Kolon, both truly unlimited.

  • We see many operas together, mostly at The Met in NYC.

  • Between 2005 and 2017 we all lived in 香港, 北京, and 東京.

  • We now live near Vermont’s Mt Mansfield. I sometimes take pictures of it.
    There are many animals nearby.

  • In Beijing we were acquired by a cat. She likes dessert and has quite a pedigree, but nothing like her friend Rocky’s.

• Hill Associates creates programs that teach people how to build, run, secure, sell, and regulate telecommunications and networking solutions. I’m the CTO there. I also teach classes on telecom and networking topics.

• I’m a founding board member of Mansfield Community Fiber.

• My professional resume might be graphically summarized like this:

• Various (mostly outdoor) recreational activities preoccupy me.

• Often with the help of some LLM-based artificial intelligence, I write some code.

• A busy middle age interrupted the reading addiction of my youth. I’m now feeding it again.

• The eternal genius Claude Shannon and I graduated from the same high school.