Hi! Thanks for coming to check out my site. If you're curious, here's what I am up to of late:

Current Focuses

• Working on Elixir stuff at SmartLogic
• Dealing with all the anxieties of life, global pandemic, and creeping fascism (and thankfully people fighting back against it... for now)
• Trying to decide where I'm gonna move in a couple months

These were what I siad my focuses were last time I updated this site before this one:

• Working on my personal health and fitness (via "diet & exercise")
• Cultivating a formal meditation practice and informal mindfulness practice

In addition to these focuses, I am finding time to pursue a number of ongoing interests, largely through books and online courses. I have offered information on what I'm up to in the pages linked below. They are listed in rough order of present level of ongoing engagement:

Ongoing Interests

• Coffee
• Languages & Communication
• History
• Music
• Craft Beer & Bourbon

Some Writings by subject

I declared spontaneously on June 3, 2014 my intention to write every day for at least a year.

In a shock to probably know one, I fell off on this severly after about 3 weeks. I hope I'll find it in myself to get started again before too long. But as listed above, my current focus is getting used to living again as a full-time employee

(When pieces are appearing...) expect to find new pieces appearing on my Medium profile and if not look to my twitter for where else I put my efforts.

Technology

• Ideas from DevOpsSummit @ Cloud Expo NYC ‘14, Days 2 & 3: Three More Metaphors, A Broader Definition, and Important Lessons from the Past (and Present) (6/17/14, 9 min read)
• Ideas from DevOpsSummit @ Cloud Expo NYC 2014, Day 1: Speed, Service, Empathy, Airplanes, & the Power of Pull (6/10/14, 10 min read)
• What is DevOps?: 3 progressively broader perspectives (6/8-6/9/14, 13 min read)

Psychology & Mindfulness

• A Homily upon Paradoxical Optimism (6/6/14, 4 min read)
• More Than (I) Thought: My common(?) misconception about brains & meditation (6/5/14, 3 min read)
• Of Neurons & Handling Stress or “On the Operation & Maintenance of Eggdicators” (6/4/14, 3 min read)

Satire

• Oracle enters Avant-Garde Film with Hyperliminal Advertising #CloudOdyssey: “A Hero’s Quest” in absurdist art (6/11/14, 4min read)

General Musings

• Impermanence (6/9/14, 4 min read)
• It just is. You just can. A prose poem on the maybe obvious (5/16/14, 2 min read)

Autobiography

• Reflections on (almost) two weeks of daily writing (6/16/14, 9 min read)
• Fuck It. It’s time for me to start writing every single day (6/3/14, 3 min read)
• On Jackets (3/6/14, 10 min read)
• This site (ongoing)

Fiction

• Protanopia, 2015 (2/14/14, 2 min read)