I pursue ease, joy, and meaningfulness. There’s lots that could be said about writing, thinking, and internet things.

As far as physical stuff goes, I’m quite a fan of bollards, and scooters/scootering.

Otherwise….

1. I occasionally write on substack about that distinctively American regime of interlocking land use norms + mobility network norms. grimmace. eugenicists explicitely and effectively to accomplish ethnic cleansing 👉 https://zoningverydifferentthanours.substack.com/.
2. I stumbled into the idea of ‘coning’ intersections, and got some pretty interesting footage of it. This is often motivated by the same restless boredom that drives someone else to watching some tv show for the Nth time. some say ‘why’, I say ‘why not?’. I’m attentive to interestingness.
3. I document on Tiktok various aspects of the mobility networks I encounter, conducting harm reduction where possible. There’s drone videos, 360 degree camera + scooting footage, and more, from places in America, Canada, Asia, and more.
4. Software + Ruby/Rails is a big narrative arc of my life, in several different iterations.
5. a few years ago, I obtained a 170cc scooter, and it’s been surprising and fun in many ways. I think every small grouping of people would be improved with access to at least a single scooter. Even today, I still find myself enjoyably surprised by the conveniences and improvements to my life represented by this vehicle, and the patterns of life that naturally weave around it.
6. Here’s a map of lots of my scooter trips: here’s a view that shows my scooting all around Denver. Here’s another view, showing an across-the-usa trip, from a few years ago.
7. Sample my goodreads reading list, whatever I’ve recently read is on my mind, either the book directly or the topic. Supremacy, slavery, consent, authority, parenting, “spanking”. lots of stuff about evangelicalism, colonialism. I read pretty adventurously, and make good use of more than one library card. I’ve written a bunch lately (see the blog) about more of these topics.
8. Have you heard of robert moses?. If not, now you have. you are so welcome. I’ve read the book once, listened to it twice, and more.
9. I happen to quite like ruby, rails, the ethos and systems. Lots to say about that. Here’s a fun project, in rails: https://trip-displayer-21ca9ac0f616.herokuapp.com/. It’s my activity data, as recorded on my scooter, usually, via strava, which I then gather and do ✨computer things✨ with it. It’s both pretty unimpressive from a technical perspective, and deeply original and I promise you have not seen data like that before! Every colored line represents a trip I took at some point, across years and many places I’ve lived.

Otherwise, click around /blog.