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Oops.

I took my shoes off out of habit.

Backslide.

A slow start to the year.

Well, it's real now.

The last time I experienced a major solar eclipse Alej, Q and I traveled down to Nashville to experience totality.

Last year was challenging.

I come from a musical family, so growing up I learned to play many different instruments from guitar to drums to scratching vinyl.

Impenetrable fog settled on the Heights this past week.

A few weeks ago was my undergraduate advisor Norman Ramsey's retirement party.

They're tearing down the long-abandoned hospital next to my house.

We did it.

Went down a TodePond rabbit hole over a cup of tea (i.e. this live talk).

We've spent the last few months in the mountains of the western part of the state.

Meadow is growing, work is A Lot, time is short, and the weather is weird.

The tv screensaver Powered by the Arts and Culture dept of the world's third-largest corporation.

Reading, listening, watching Books finished recently: You're Paid What You're Worth by Jake Rosenfeld Neuromancer by William Gibson Good stuff on the net: ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web by Ted Chiang Frugal computing • Wim Vanderbauwhede Elsewhere My…

Happy 2023!

Hosting Mastodon from your basement There are plenty of great resources to help folks with a moderate technical background setup a Mastodon instance, including the official documentation.

A few years ago, a laptop of mine experienced inexplicable battery failure.

Tonight I fixed Alejandra's favorite camera - her Dad's Ricoh Singlex TLS from the 70s.

I'm started to write this page on my 30th birthday, and am returning and revising it now on the last day of 2021.

Rethinking the future of work Work in Progress is a name that has fittingly been with me for a long time.

An interview on webrings and shrinking the web The webrings I've encountered have been an immense source of inspiration, social connection.

"Running is a celebration of life" Zaf Ahmed, my middle and highschool coach told us.

The droplets fell from the un-fixable gutter with a tabla's rhythm.

A year long interview run by Malcolm to better understand our mom Mom, While it may be closer to your next birthday than it is your previous one, Marshall and I wanted to make good on a birthday idea that we had and--Marshall's fault*--failed to execute o…

Notes ahead of my talk to the Tufts CS and Entrepreneurship Communities What sparked you to get the entrepreneurship bug One possibility is that both of my parents were self-employed.

A reflection of how we work and grow as a fully remote team There are plenty of lists of tools for remote teams, and some fantastic examples of documented processes (ex Gitlab).

I inherited a garden.

I met Jason early on in his climate journey.

Obviously my desktop background… Ah yes, the unflappable entrepreneur: knowing from Day 1 that their business will last decades — nay a century!

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