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2026 6

  1. In Defense of Aesop’s Grasshopper
  2. Alaska Range 2026
  3. Dream of Wild Turkeys
  4. One Hundred Laps
  5. What do you think you're hiding?
  6. No joy in life can survive reductionism

2025 18

  1. How I passed the time in 2025
  2. A Day's Bookends
  3. Is it time for Post-Stoicism?
  4. Good Internet Citizenship
  5. Stop using your health wearables
  6. As Wild as It Gets
  7. South of the Haimish Line
  8. The Asymmetry of Destruction
  9. A Rivalry Plucked From Fiction
  10. The Daily Pancake
  11. Spinning a slog into significance
  12. Slos 50k: Countdown
  13. My body is not a temple
  14. A Certain Slant of Light
  15. Losing My Edge
  16. Introducing: Slos
  17. American Hedonism
  18. Book Review: Primates of Park Avenue

2024 26

  1. How I passed the time in 2024
  2. Valuable, but not productive
  3. Learning Not to Trust the All-In Podcast in Ten Minutes
  4. The Illusion of Solitude
  5. Sometimes It's About the Destination
  6. Aridity Incarnate
  7. Mourning a Dam to Love a River
  8. Backcountry Skiers and Venture Capitalists
  9. What Makes a Local?
  10. Bits from Boulder
  11. Sopris Soirée
  12. A Break from the Bubble
  13. Don't Tell Me This Town Ain't Got No Heart; Or, Sphere and Loathing
  14. Fellowship and Fractures
  15. Caffeine, Albuterol, Alcohol
  16. 27
  17. An Ode to Manchester Wall
  18. Wrestling With Rest
  19. In Defense of Trying Hard
  20. The Hardo-Normie Alignment Graph
  21. Backyard Skiing
  22. Your Social Universe
  23. Season-Chasing
  24. Hemiphytophilia
  25. The Highest Impact Thing You Can Do in Your Everyday Life
  26. Savoring the Unsavory

2023 17

  1. High-Density Days
  2. How I passed the time in 2023
  3. The Consciousness Box
  4. Alpine Starts II
  5. So We Won't Forget
  6. Full of Eternity
  7. The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
  8. It's All Relative
  9. Why Write?
  10. Mixing Memory and Desire
  11. Alpine Starts
  12. A Morning and Night in the Desert
  13. What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300 Million?
  14. A Wednesday at Arapahoe Lakes
  15. Tipping is Spreading and It Sucks
  16. Perfidious Pricing
  17. Is a Priest Justified in Consulting a Doctor?

2022 10

  1. My Experience Posting Satire to the Internet
  2. Pave the 14ers
  3. Reasons Not to Burn Coal That Have Nothing to Do with Climate Change
  4. Sweatshop Labor and the Exploitation Problem
  5. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics and the Exploitation Problem
  6. On For Grantedness
  7. Incommensurate Goods in ESG
  8. Respecting Repose
  9. Overthrowing Overstimulation
  10. Reconsidering Reading

2021 16

  1. What My Friends Have to Say About Me
  2. Manufactured Data Scarcity
  3. My Aspirational People List
  4. Be a Selfish Driver
  5. UPPERCASE lowercase Andinbetvveen
  6. Sonic Timelines
  7. Infectious Intimations
  8. Culture Shock // It's Too Late
  9. Speaking Pidgin
  10. Lessons from "The Fall"
  11. Kerouac the Cartographer
  12. Recent Ruminations on Running
  13. Descriptions of Desiderium
  14. Paradoxes, Principles, Permits
  15. Chasing Infinities
  16. On Art and Loving Your Neighbors