James AllynJames Allyn is a professional survivor of the "strategicreset," a man who has spent seven decades treating existenceas a high-stakes scavenger hunt rather than a career path. Fromthe vibration-heavy gondola of the Goodyear Blimp to theresin-clouded sipyards of Modena, Italy, James hasconsistently proven that the most important thing anyone canever design is their own exit strategy.A connoisseur of the "glorious, stupid thing," James haschased the sublime and the absurd in equal measure. He hasstood at the crossroads of history-lighting the "beigemonolith" of the first Macintosh for Steve Jobs and witnessingthe birth of cinematic legends-only to realize that the mostenduring stories are found in the scuffs and dents of thejourney. Whether wrestling a "shopping cart of anvils" down afrozen mountain or orchestrating a transatlantic miracle offiberglass and fire pits, he has lived with a defiant commitmentto never arriving at the finish line uncreased.After surviving the seismic "tantrum" of the 1989earthquake, the "biblical baptism" of the yacht racing world, and the "paprika-colored" chaos of the restaurant business, James has found his truthful ending. He lives on a farm in thefoothills of North San Diego County, surrounded by therhythmic crunch of grazing horses and the ghosts of the manylives he was foolish enough to live. A Beautiful, Chaotic, LeakySymphony is his first book-a testament to a man who arrivedwith pockets full of sea glass, a heart full of gratitude, and arefusal to ever apologize for the noise. Read More Read Less