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86 from 1 Jan 2001 to 16 Aug 2026
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monthly (8 in the last year)
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2026 5

  1. Recent adventures, thoughts on AI, and the Lightswitch Effect
  2. Hiking the Paria River
  3. A month of paper and tea
  4. Built in Shenzhen
  5. Landing in Shanghai

2025 10

  1. How I want to be
  2. Sol's photons before Elon's photons
  3. 29 birthday thoughts
  4. Capy the WhatsApp Bot
  5. over the handlebars
  6. [draft] Brainard Cabin: Trip Report
  7. Notes on Apple's Nano Texture
  8. thinking about the future
  9. underwater down under
  10. thoughts on Daylight Computer

2024 5

  1. projects projects projects
  2. Top 5
  3. on building with friends
  4. south for the winter
  5. in search of a new tab

2023 6

  1. universes of sense
  2. on journaling
  3. to black rock city and back
  4. 22 moments from 2022
  5. a proposal: 7 posts in 7 days
  6. I went to live with friends in nature

2022 16

  1. seasons
  2. what makes a meaningful life?
  3. stranded in Villa Cerro Castillo
  4. a trip in the trees
  5. a taste of nomad life again
  6. settled life: 100 days in
  7. offline spaces
  8. socially- and ai-augmented squad building
  9. I went to nyc again
  10. furnishing a nest
  11. making friends on the internet
  12. two weeks in Boulder
  13. charting course in a hurricane
  14. internet studio gardens
  15. notes on a few weeks in a high rise
  16. movement frictions, cost to prediction, and respite from it all

2021 10

  1. Can blogging be made simpler?
  2. on building with a squad
  3. in search of a garden
  4. hazard indicators in Mexico
  5. reflections on 90 days of writing
  6. things I want to help build
  7. 25 birthday thoughts
  8. push & pull, online & off, cities and sand
  9. internet identity and the permanence of words
  10. Year in Review: 2020

2020 20

  1. the search for home
  2. 24 Birthday Thoughts
  3. Sunsets, writing, and noise
  4. [[workstations]]
  5. Spreadsheets, smoke, and leases
  6. I need to watch more sunsets
  7. I miss coffeeshops
  8. The important stuff gets written down eventually
  9. [[my dream working environment]]
  10. I want to live in nature with friends
  11. This newsletter lives in Roam
  12. Plan
  13. Musings on open-source notes and digital gardens
  14. Have I become dumber since moving away from my roommates?
  15. Hyperlinks, hyperlinks, hyperlinks
  16. How do we throw an online party?
  17. Hello Strange, New World
  18. How Coronavirus Infected My Brain
  19. The Concentration Compromise
  20. I Miss Buying Fancy New Electronics

2019 8

  1. Year in Review: 2019
  2. Digital Tools I Wish Existed
  3. Healthy Living
  4. Next Steps, 2019 Edition
  5. Journaling
  6. On Moving Away
  7. Up and to the Where?
  8. Hello World

2001 6

  1. About this Site
  2. Get in touch
  3. ideas I want to see soon
  4. Let's Build Together?
  5. My thoughts on AI
  6. Notable