Journal
Thoughts big and small.
💔 how can you breathe
How can you breathe? How are you literally able to wake up and breathe right now? A 37 year old American was shot and killed yesterday for doing what I hope any good neighbour would have. It turns...
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🏔️ seventeen minutes
It’s still dark out. Though the sun has technically risen, the mountains still hold us within the embrace of their shadows. All is quiet except for the steady beeps and hums of the machinery of a...
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👋🏽 hello/goodbye
Today I say goodbye to Milo, and hello to the next chapter.
I. live in the future and build what’s missing. For nearly 300 Sundays, I have sat down at this computer to design experiments and build products to solve the invisible load of running a modern...
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✨ group hug
why holiday cards have gone from a dreaded chore to one of my most cherished traditions
If you had asked me even 3 years ago about holiday cards there would have been some very salt language involved. What started maybe 10 years ago as a fairly contained exercise had turned into an...
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🌳 the genius of mary oliver
why poetry is just as vital as physics in understanding our world.
Mary Oliver's words strike me so deep. I feel my angst in hers. This desire to be of the natural world, but constantly quarrelling with this billowing ambition trying to claw its way out of me. More...
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travel back to my heartland
It's 9:47pm. The bags are packed and at the door. Tomorrow we awake at 4:15am and make the journey back to India. It's been 10 years. A timespan that's hard for me to comprehend when I grew up on the...
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taking storytelling and essays to another level
There are these rare moments when you come across the work of a stranger and it's like they leapt into your mind and your heart and pulled out what you've been unable to express quite so well. Today...
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🧐 the trouble with patterns ...
... you're doomed to live within the bounds of what already is.
The biggest problem with LLMs in my mind is that they are not in fact "thinking machines", but rather pattern machines. They're incredible at picking out patterns with high probability and then...
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⏳ back to 2005
there and back again
It's been surprising to me how much the medium impacts my message. For most of my life I wrote in a little journal. And then, in my early 20s when I moved away from family and friends to Cincinnati,...
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👋🏽 hi.
welcome to the beautiful chaos.
hello world. not my first words online by a long shot. but my first words written in a place entirely of my creation. this blog is my little corner of the world for reflection and creativity and...
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