Updated: January 13th, 2024
- Building a social map that shows the “life” in NY— gigs, street artists’ performances, farmers’ markers — near you in time and space! Think Google Maps “cafes near me” meets RA and that community event board built in the 90s. Shoot me an email if you’d like to be an early tester.
- Returning to the working world and NYC after a wonderful, mind and soul-expanding four months of travel and time at home caring for my grandparents.
- Talking to people and exploring opportunities to build things that create real value with incredible people who are learners and teachers.
Updated September, 8th 2023:
- Starting a four-month (post-graduation) sabbatical (September — January) where I will be traveling. Starting in the Netherlands and ending in India. I’ll be writing a travel “museletter” here — subscribe to follow along.
- Creating a “mapplication” 🗺️ to show events/real-time data “near me.” As a backpacker in new places. I am asking people for recommendations. The best are “events.” building on top of it to discover people, places, and events on the move.
- I write here every day.
- No YouTube. The site has introduced TikTok-like shorts, and they are addictive. My compromise is to download anything I want to watch on 4kVideoDownloader, to prevent the mindless scroll.
Upcoming Events:
- 10-day Vipassana meditation in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts (September 20th - October 1st) at Dhamma Dharā ✅
- RailsWorld Conference October 5-6 in Amsterdam ✅
Reading:
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Recommended by Eron Nicholson (never finished)
- Revising Prose 5th Edition by Richard A. Lanham. Recommended by Jason Fried ✅
- The Bhagavad Gita was translated by Laurie L. Patton. Recommended by my professor Nathanael Shelley, after reading Barbara Stoler Miller’s many times translation. ✅
Learning:
- Edward Tufte: Seminar — PRESENTING DATA AND INFORMATION ✅
- Head First JavaScript 3rd Edition✅
Updated July, 24th 2023: Summer in New York: June - September, 2023
- Lots of Cuban Style Salsa at the wonderful Salsa Sabrosa school💃
- I am my enjoying my internship on the incredible DevOps team at Basecamp. I am drinking from the firehose. I show up excited to work with some of the smartest, kindest people I’ve ever met. What an immense privilege to learn, work, build and contribute at 37signals. It ends September 1st, 2023, and I am looking for the next thing.
Reading ✅:
- Shape Up (July, 2023)
- Getting Real The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application (July, 2023)
Learning ✅:
- Pragmatic Studio - Ruby on Rails 7 Tutorial