Burning Man is humanity’s middle finger to an uncaring universe. Burning Man takes place in the Nevada dessert. Its extremely hot and bright during the day, and can become bitterly cold and completely dark at night. It is almost completely inhospitable. The term dusty is an understatement as the...
I’m a big fan of revisiting old ideas and iterating on them. Its always fascinating using an old concept or framework on a new problem and seeing how well it stands up. Recently, I’ve been noticing the company I’ve been working at, Cloudflare, is slowly re-inventing itself from within and...
You are now part of the long tail. Decentralization enables the expansion of ideas and products into new markets in ways that were never thought possible before with centralized systems. This unlocks an equal if not greater portion of the value that is available for those ideas and products. Lets...
I hate your poem – that spittle you call verse The pustular oozing of emotional soothing broken, gnarled and terse I hate your poem – and it’s childish rhyme scheme Your dutiful pattern so beaten and battered Like an unspeakable crime scene I hate your poem – in all its...
Since I’ve had a website, I’ve been redoing it. Over and over, playing styles and themes and metaphors. Never content, I went through iteration after iteration. Each iteration walking through varied works in progress – moving items here, blatantly stealing paradigms there. Part of this was just the passion of...
Imagine the future when almost every cause, company, and even people have their own currency. Think of it the same way most companies and many individuals today have their own domain names, Twitter accounts, and Facebook pages. Billions upon billions of expressions by people creating and sharing what they love...
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The scene wasn’t pretty. Me, in my boxers, unwashed, undressed, and sweating against a humid DC summer. I had just congealed in front of the computer for an amount of time well past inordinate. Shuffling pixels around enough to trick my poor monkey mind into thinking I was accomplishing something...
A plotter, a planner, a doubting calculator. Keys stuck – pressed too hard in Ohio. Attics hold secrets and humidity. Futons creak with photos taken a year ago. Its now more act than action. more stage than show. “What do you want?” is the echoing poison, the black crystal I...
I can’t help but look back on my article highlighting how it feels to look for a job these days and consider what things look like from the other side of the interview table. Broken Metaphors The biggest flaw in the dating metaphor is that the candidate is not dealing...
I have been meaning to post this as a spiritual sequel to my job hunt article. Landing a job in the modern day is only the initial problem. Quickly jumping onto the moving train that is a young, vibrant startup is a whole separate ordeal. Orientation is ever-maturing, documentation is...