Here are two hobbies I thought I would enjoy. 1. Dungeons & Dragons 2. Mechanical keyboards I've observed friends enjoying these hobbies. I've listened to seasons of podcasts about these hobbies. I genuinely enjoy being on the questioning-and-listening end of enthusiastic conversations about these hobbies. I take joy in seeing my frien...

We smoked two pork shoulders this week. I'll do my best to avoid sounding like just one of the Guys With a Traeger Grill... but I've gotta say, that computer assisted wood burning temperature regulation made for some consistent succulence. The aim was recreating the Caribbean Roast sandwich from Paseo in Seattle Un Bien in Seattle (and...

I recently broke silence on Twitter. It's not because I think Twitter is a great place to publish my thoughts. It's because I had excitement about a project. The kind of excitement that demands sharing with someone. The excitement was fueled by progress in building an RSS Reader. I don't know what came over me, but in July of 2020 I'd ...

Limitations are reality. The mythologies of becoming anything, going anywhere, and experiencing everything demo well. They deliver an endlessly realized fear of missing out. No choice is sufficient, because each choice brings the nascent possibility of it having been slightly better. The fear that incremental improvement was not achiev...

The bookmark. That humble, miraculous, time saving invention. Cast aside from the properly bound pages, a detached strip of paper is found indispensable. The consecutive pages provide opportunity for progress. What has passed and what is to come is marked by the movable. It has no words of its own. But it unlocks the words it skips ove...

I took a hike today. Hikes of yesteryear were filled with expectation, and resolved in revelation. Giant breakthroughs. Fresh insights. Renewed purpose. Not today. No expectations. Practicing the presence of silence, with no agenda. My boots treading mud, every ounce of energy was focused on not falling down. Four miles later, there we...

David and Jason announced HEY World a few weeks ago. Once I connected the dots, I sent an email titled "Is This Thing On?" to world@hey.com. I received a helpful reply, that the thing was not on. But now it's on! Continuing the pattern of the past several years, Basecamp's sensibilities for software strike a chord with mine. Removing t...