This week
- My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a unique male vocalist. more…...
- This performance has been years in the making. In a sense, you could say it’s been a lifetime in the making. On November 6th, 2025, my brother Ian and I gave a “talk” at the amazing Beyond Tellerrand conference in […]...
- almost all interactions are repeat games...
Last week
- I’ve never been one to write these kinds of posts, but I’ve really enjoyed reading these! Hearing that my buddies had small moments of joy and success makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, despite the overall mood of 2025. For me, the overall theme of this year was survival. I...
- 2025 was… a year. And I made it to the end of that year. If you’re reading this, I imagine you did too and let’s celebrate that. But also not one without loss; of loved ones, of health, of relationships, of jobs, of liberties, of pursuits of happiness. Let’s mourn those. My year...
- My favorite discoveries from 2025. Previous best-of posts are available here. Books Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy LeCarre’s spy masterpiece. This year I read the entire Karla Trilogy, of which this is the first and my favorite part. I enjoyed it so much I read it......
Two weeks ago
- Last year we spent the end of December in Portugal, which started a new family tradition of travelling abroad for the Christmas season. We don’t like the cold, Mariah Carey and George Michael songs are not particularly to our taste, and overeating Christmas food just because...
- 🎵 Christmas time is here. Happiness and cheer. Fun for all… that children call… their favorite time of year. School’s out. The work laptop’s closed. Now is a good time to recount the vibes. I wanted to get out this vibecheck before embarking on the annual recap that way it’s...
About a month ago
- If you subscribe to this blog, you must like it — right? I mean, you are subscribed to it. And if you like this blog, you might also like my notes blog. It’s where I take short notes of what I read, watch, listen to, or otherwise consume, add my two cents, and fire it off into...
- My last article was blogging off Jeremey’s article which blogged off Chris’ article and, after publishing, a reader tipped me off to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect which sounds an awful lot like Chris’ “Jeopardy Phenomenon”. Here’s Wikipedia: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a...
- Truly, we are living in a new Golden Age for all those sharing our passion in subjugating all of human race under a single iron fist. And to think that mere few decades ago we thought that our way of life was heading to the dung heap of humanity. Education, international...
- MY WIFE GRADUATED AND GOT HER MASTERS IN MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING AND ART THERAPY! I am so massively proud of her! Melissa has busted her ass and has demonstrated superhuman levels of grit and determination over the last four and […]...
- Chris Coyier: There’s the thing where if you’re reading an article in the newspaper, and it’s about stuff you don’t know a ton about, it all seems well and good. Then you read another article in the same paper and it’s about something you know intimately (your job, your...
about 1 month ago
- A blog alarm clock lives inside me. As time passes, an uncomfortable pressure builds up until the alarm finally goes off, rattling my bones and my soul. Snoozing isn’t an option; the only way to turn the alarm off and […]...
- As ever, Mandy Brown casually drops a blog post that makes you examine the everyday meaning of words: One of the imperatives in contemporary, professional work culture is to “grow.” There is often a sense of height or largeness with that imperative, as if growth must be measured...
- Two friends of mine (brothers, actually) got laid off from their job at a megachurch here in Austin. We met through a mutual friend that started attending their church. Our kids hang out on Roblox, so we’re connected through dadship and games. They oversaw a lot of the music and...
about 2 months ago
- I got tagged in this by my buddy Jan Maarten, who got tagged by my other buddy Eric Bailey. I’m not gonna lie, both of these lists have very strong overlap with my own lists. I’ll try my best not to be too repetitive, but it will be hard as they are both stellar lists that I...
- Above the clouds in the Peruvian Andes there is a town named La Rinconada. It holds the title of being the highest year-round settlement in the world. At one point swelling to 30,000 people, the population has dwindled some now near 12,000. The weather is cold and the oxygen is...
- In high school I had the weird, cyclical circumstance of reading Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at least once a year at every grade level. Like Groundhog’s day but set in fictionalized 17th century Salem. While I appreciated the easy grade at the time due to uncoordinated...
- I’m a sucker for off-grid DIY content. And a double-sucker for commune documentaries. And this post is about a project that scratches both those itches. Project Kamp is a sustainable living community in the hills of central Portugal. The unique thing about this cooperative...
2 months ago
- Ari Miller is a New York based beat maker who started streaming from his bedroom in 2020. He grew his following by engaging with other popular streamers but where I learned about him was his from viral street performances where he dawns a 55-lbs mobile production studio. He puts...
- You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting. Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend related the story to...
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