On the weekend before PNW Climate Week I attended a Beginner’s Mind retreat at Great Vow Zen Monastery. The combination of mindfulness while working in the kitchen and garden was exactly what I have been looking for, but the hours in the ca…
Michael Pollan has written about everything from mushrooms to apples and corn, but his coevolutionary story of how tulips and humans shaped each other may have been the most prescient given recent market parallels. GPU compute powering cryp…
I came to PNW Climate Week curious how I could better serve the planet. That might mean using my software skills to power an organization focused on environmental impact, conservation, or clean energy. My career could also take a new direct…
After 5 years of building software to help social workers support children at Koinonia Family Services, I am ready for a new adventure! It’s been wonderful growing together with the team there through leadership changes, shifts in the field…
Our big brains and hands are meant to serve mother earth, not dominate it. While most people were baking sourdough and watching Netflix during the covid lockdowns, I was streaming permaculture videos. I became obsessed with Kirsten Dirksen’…
I’ve written more about yoga than meditation, but both have been vital for my well-being over the years. Yoga was an easier path for me at first as an active person, since it’s hard for me to sit still (and I could do it at the gym!). I’m u…
This year was my first time attending the North Coast Men’s Gathering at the Mattole Camp and Retreat Center in the beautiful lost coast town of Petrolia. Huge thanks to the organizers and participants over the last 33+ years who have contr…
When I started this blog in 2013 I used WordPress to avoid reinventing the wheel before moving over to Jekyll in 2016. I never took the time to set up continuous deployment so would SSH into DreamHost (strong CamelCase theme emerging here)
“If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.” I read Sri Swami Satchidananda’s translation and commentary on The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and would like to share my brief notes in case it is helpful. Fo…
Here is a snippet and link to my favorite example that you can use to understand this in JavaScript. Make sure you have the console open and read the logs as you click on the buttons. The code is here in GitHub as well. This example is help…
While it is clear that I enjoy using Elm for front-end web development, I’ve been trying to find the best tool for simple back-end web applications for several years now. I want to share two toy projects I recently started working on in cas…
“The goal is two-fold: level-up my Elm skills by continuing to maintain and develop a more complex application and add features to a project which people can use to invest sustainably.” I’ve been working on the value investing newsletter Va…