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Writing this from Orania Hotel in Berlin, sipping a negroni and doing a little people-watching as people ride, walk, scoot, and drive past the floor to ceiling windows.

I went on an amazing hike a few months back.

A month ago, eagerly test running my new smoker, I overestimated my abilities, underestimated the darkness, and earned myself some nice food poisoning.

This is a follow-up post to Landing in Shanghai.

It all started with a poster: My friend Weiwei invited me to Mahjong Hackhouse, “a space where genuine conversations, ambitious dreams, and shared curiosities can compound into enduring relationships”, with a stated goal of letting attendees “walk away kn…

Mt Sanitas with four inches of fresh snow.

'after getting through his morning routine of exercising his demons, it was time for Corporal Spacecake to do a little house keeping', seen at First Friday in Boulder CO Maintaining a good relationship with my phone is hard.

Made it up Sanitas ~50 times over the course of the year A few years ago, I wrote a similar post for my 24th birthday (funny enough, 4 days late last time too).

context: a few friends and I are circling around the idea of “Local Community Tech Stacks”: interoperable, somewhat vibe-coded, ideally self-hostable apps to help our communities run.

On Friday July 4 I took a tumble over my handlebars.

location: Roosevelt National Forest, CO at Colorado Mountain Club’s Brainard Cabin length of stay: 2 nights party: Gary, Lauren, Ken, and myself weather: "Highs in the 40s and mostly clear with clouds at sun set.

2024 Nano Texture Macbook Pro on the left; 2021 Glossy Macbook Pro on the right TLDR: the Nano Texture performs wonderfully anywhere where light used to be a factor and used to force me to shade my screen or avoid the place entirely.

In light of all the interesting times going on around us, I was exploring some possible future scenarios.

artists rendition by openai apologies for not having better photos.

on the Amtrak from Denver to Sacramento When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is what all computing could feel like.

note: if images aren’t showing up for you in Brave, try Safari or Chrome :) 3 day backpacking adventure in Indian Peaks Wilderness Projects are like plants, they live and they multiply and they can die without the required care.

Top things by category.

when you need to bring big tools in a little car I want to build wilder and more beautiful things with my friends.

Hello world.

A few months ago my friend Eli was sharing his screen and opened a new tab on his browser.

Midjourney By the time I got my first computer, connecting to the world wide web was a quiet affair.

Fourth of July Trailhead, Nederland, CO I recently hosted (my first ever) writing workshop on journaling at Burning Man.

In the playa, looking west at the city.

A bit late, but better late than never.

The last time we played this game, I was astonished at how fun and generative it was.

6 weeks near Silver Strand Beach, Coronado, CA thanks to Savannah for inspo and reflections Some time ago I wrote about my intentions to live with friends in nature to satisfy my desire for community, access to outdoors, and convenience.

📍 writing indoors from Boulder, CO Chautauqua Park, Boulder, CO We’ve officially entered winter.

Boulder Valley Ranch, CO written in response to Savannah’s wonderful prompt I’d like to start by trying on “makes” in that prompt instead of “is”.

settled into a year-long lease in Boulder, Colorado thinking about collaboration, therapy, and journaling.

A post from the archives, capturing the moment I realized I was ready for a more stable & calm existence, prompting me to start making my way up north to Boulder, CO where I reside now.

Sanitas Valley, Boulder, CO It’s been 19 months since I last took mushrooms on a hike with a friend in San Diego, CA.

📍 writing from Boulder, CO Marfa, TX So I don’t know.

📍 writing from Boulder, CO Dakota Ridge Trail, Sanitas Valley, Boulder, CO In the mornings I like to get outside as soon as possible, to walk the 17 minutes to the second-nearest cafe for a coffee and a croissant.

the Cloud. it's located in boulder, co Parts of my self are stored in the cloud, some in my squishy meat computer, and the rest are on my friends’ squishy meat computers.

For the past 18 months I’ve been building as part of a squad we call buzzard.

An experimental post.

Dakota Ridge Trail, Sanitas Valley, Boulder, CO 📍 writing from Boulder, CO Almost two months since arriving to Boulder: a newfound stillness, structure to my day, a consistent place to sleep.

There are almost eight billion of us on this planet, ten thousand likely very similar to yourself.

Fourteen days since I packed my rented Jeep Grand Cherokee full of my earthly possessions (and some new ones from Amazon), said my goodbyes to family, and set off east towards Denver.

Garner Pass in Torres del Paine 📍 writing from Roseville, CA It’s been a wild few months.

Leander, TX from my hammock post 11 / 100 - an exploration into the sort of internet spaces I’d like to be a part of.

view from the pool deck I’ve spent a decent amount of time in cities (New York, San Diego, Mexico City) but for the most part it’s been at ground level or in sub-five floor walkups.

Tulum, Mexico posting from: Mexico City, Mexico.

as much as I love my blog, suggesting others start their own like I did is too tall a technical ask.

post #5.

at the Marisposa Monarch Butterfly Preserve posting from: Valle de Bravo, Mexico life updates Hello friends.

Soumaya Museum in Mexico City Post three of my 100-post challenge.

This is post #2 of my 100-post challenge.

The following are efforts I hope to contribute to over the following decades.

Socorro, NM It’s my birthday again.