I'm a huge book wonk, and enjoy swimming, the outdoors in general, home brewing, travel, and cooking/bbq.My goals, to start, at least:Never stop learningNetwork - Partner - Develop relationships in the areaIncome - Income - IncomeDeveloping systems and working on time managementRehab jobs on the side to add to the ability to produce #3"Retire" from my day job by 40I'm also quite interested in personal finance topics, as well as harnessing the power of technology and data to make quick decisions; although I generally abhor black boxes.

TX is booming, oil, technology, healthcare and massive population growth here!

This may limit your growth rate in the short term when the market is strong, but will save you when the market is soft.Generally engineers have sound personal finance since they have decent, steady, well paid jobs and not extravagant spending/tastes (except maybe when it comes to technology)Possible Disadvantages:You will tend to over analyze everything and want to understand every minute detail before taking any actionYou may want or expect things to be "black and white" and have trouble operating with ambiguity and in the "grey area".

I have sold 2 technology companies in the past.

Due to the increasingly more difficult environment to find good Brrrr deals is anyone coming up with more innovative strategies to make deals work?

I desire to move faster and get more done through technology and automation, I do not want just a pretty dressed up version of GOOLGE SHEETS that requires to me go in and manually tweak every single bit of content.

Welcome to the site @Arthur Clark Bigger Pockets is the most innovative and educational site available to learn about real estate investing.All the best to you!

Technology allows us to collaborate seamlessly with one another.

This included being a key member of the city's plans regarding infrastructure improvements to the area, local redevelopment of old properties, and I personally spearheaded a $250,000 technology grant for the neighborhood from the city and local foundations.  

Investing in a sellers market (like Los Angeles) at this part of the the real estate cycle requires much more skill & innovation.