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I forgot my laptop December 2, 2021
My Kindle is dead May 25, 2021
Decentralization is a narrative mirage. February 3, 2021
Dark and dirty dorm rooms January 26, 2021
Four years ago November 3, 2020
Inside every brown take-out bag… October 29, 2020
Acting like a Github recruiter October 21, 2020
Radio, SF, and cultural stopgaps October 16, 2020
Can I smell as well as a bloodhound? October 14, 2020
Tailwind saved me from a coding ice age October 13, 2020
Bierstadt and breakfast October 11, 2020
Big vision, little start October 2, 2020
Avoiding a bad day September 30, 2020
2020 > 1924 September 29, 2020
The Needles, Canyonlands September 25, 2020
To the next chapter September 11, 2020
Unlearning school September 2, 2020
Surprises generate smiles. August 31, 2020
Shared Lyft to Dunkin’ Donuts August 21, 2020
Pascal’s Scam August 19, 2020
New one-mile PR August 18, 2020
Personality is the force majeure of the internet. August 5, 2020
“All You Need To Know” July 22, 2020
Birds, Planes, And COVID’s Chokepoint July 17, 2020
Don’t Judge a Substack By Its Cover July 15, 2020
Timezones, power-ranked: Mountain, Central, Pacific, Eastern July 10, 2020
Restaurant Revenue and Goodhart’s Law July 9, 2020
Long email signatures July 7, 2020
The High-Frequency-Trading Of News June 30, 2020
Google blew a ten-year lead. June 24, 2020
Picky Eaters, Philanderers, and Hamlet June 16, 2020
Birmingham’s Original Sin June 9, 2020
The coffee doesn’t taste any good. May 29, 2020
I Am Nothing and Also Something May 21, 2020
Stay, leave, or create a hacker house? May 20, 2020
Late May 15, 2020
What if I run out of things to say? May 14, 2020
Patio11’s Law May 12, 2020
The “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t” Fallacy May 7, 2020
I was tricked into thinking I had “grit” May 5, 2020
Shaving and being human May 4, 2020
Seatbelts and falling out of a Ford station wagon April 29, 2020
Charlie Munger is slowly warming up to Elon Musk April 24, 2020
Running, one year apart April 23, 2020
Fruit flies and climate change April 17, 2020
Bill’s Guide To Bread April 15, 2020
Narrow band of intelligence April 14, 2020
Learning to love (monitors) again April 1, 2020
“Hey Alexa, Pause The Economy” March 18, 2020
Whistler March 17, 2020
~2,412 people in the U.S. have SARS-CoV-2 (as of 3/5/2020) March 5, 2020
Working from home March 3, 2020
Almost out of stock February 28, 2020
The more “important,” the more engaging February 27, 2020
Trekking in Kyrgyzstan February 25, 2020
Being prolific February 21, 2020
Constraints breed more than creativity February 19, 2020
Will negative interest rates lead to Marxism? February 14, 2020
Cocktail Party Entrepreneurs February 13, 2020
“I Exist” February 10, 2020
Organizing my thoughts February 7, 2020
Bars need competition in order to get crowds February 6, 2020
F-150 Mile Equivalents, “FME’s” February 5, 2020
“The average American changes their healthcare plan every 2.7 years.” January 31, 2020
“How did the human cross the road?” January 30, 2020
From Idaho to Mars January 29, 2020
Union Square January 28, 2020
“It’s Vulnerability, Stupid” January 27, 2020
Just enough to get into trouble, not enough to avoid disaster January 26, 2020
Side hustle January 24, 2020
It’s too late to collect sand January 23, 2020
Everybody already knows January 22, 2020
“Down” Market January 21, 2020
“It’s Voluntary” January 20, 2020
Inventions are memes January 17, 2020
“I’ll finish that tonight.” January 16, 2020
AIM and Identity January 15, 2020
Annualized expenses. January 14, 2020
Cigarettes, scotch, company, writing, and conversation January 13, 2020
Hitchens in North Beach January 9, 2020
E-commerce and iCommerce December 16, 2019
The Efficient Market Hypothesis and equities December 9, 2019
Fermentation Station December 8, 2019
Where Are The Engineer’s Mansions? December 4, 2019
Lyndon Johnson nearly killed himself running for his first Congressional seat when he was 28 years old. December 3, 2019
Day 1 December 2, 2019
Munger, on Trump November 24, 2019
Click November 21, 2019
This morning I was walking down Divisadero. November 20, 2019
Google Search Is Dead (8 years later) November 13, 2019
Streaks November 12, 2019
Shh November 11, 2019
“When a supernova explodes, the blast wave creates high-energy particles that scatter in every direction; scientists believe there is a minute chance that one of the errant particles known, as a cosmic ray, can hit a computer chip on Earth, flipping a 0 to a 1. November 8, 2019
Sitting November 7, 2019
Why isn’t the trade war a bipartisan issue? November 6, 2019
“All The News That’s Fit To Print” November 5, 2019
Language November 4, 2019
Last month, outside of JFK, Elizabeth commented, “No smoking sign… but it smells like smoke. November 1, 2019
Ketchum October 31, 2019
“10 Simple Truths” March 19, 2019
On Clouds, Since August March 18, 2019
Nashville, 2 years apart December 19, 2018
Morgantown to Pittsburgh December 18, 2018
360° of Mt. Cook December 12, 2018
Just Walk Out December 12, 2018
Eating in Mt. Cook National Park December 6, 2018
Screaming vs. Subtle December 5, 2018
The Destruction Index November 30, 2018
Guns, Germs and Sweat November 19, 2018
Surfing and coffee November 15, 2018
Turtles, All The Way Down November 14, 2018
Outsite in Canggu, Bali, Indonesia November 14, 2018
Chicago November 9, 2018
Fall, Winter, Summer November 9, 2018
“The demand curve slopes downward” November 8, 2018
The end of status November 6, 2018
Boundaries November 6, 2018
Birds and buses to BHM November 3, 2018
Tesla October 30, 2018
Slow October 29, 2018
Steve Martin October 23, 2018
7,830 miles October 11, 2018
Scrolling and scrolling and scrolling October 9, 2018
Mr. Singh October 7, 2018
Not Pictured October 7, 2018
Chinese hotspot, made for an Indian network, unlocked in Laos, for worldwide internet October 3, 2018
Goodbye, Pai October 2, 2018
Motorbiking in Pai October 1, 2018
Around the world in 80 hostels October 1, 2018
Big blue dog September 28, 2018
Monk Chats September 27, 2018
“I did Chiang Mai” Pet Peeve September 26, 2018
Mental Model: Chokepoints September 25, 2018
Hiking to Nalan, a remote ethnic hill tribe. September 23, 2018
Things I wish existed while I’ve been traveling September 23, 2018
The “Roadside Motel” Bill September 21, 2018
Province Tax September 19, 2018
“The bridge is broken” September 19, 2018
Hike up to the Nong Kiaw Viewpoint September 19, 2018
Munger, Wal-mart, and Louis C.K. September 14, 2018
Exploring Vang Vieng, Laos September 14, 2018
Driving in Laos September 14, 2018
“For The Gram” September 14, 2018
Stitches September 14, 2018
Great leaders speak plainly September 8, 2018
Consistency Is Underrated September 7, 2018
How, Cambodia? September 4, 2018
Efficient Market Hypothesis August 20, 2018
Ken’s Artisan Pizza - Portland, OR August 19, 2018
Seattle August 18, 2018
“Side Effects May Include” July 27, 2018
Anti-Bike-Shedding July 25, 2018
Enthusiasm July 25, 2018
Brown Line to Kimball June 30, 2018
Fewer people moving and taking risks June 28, 2018
Sourdough, June 2018 Vintage June 27, 2018
“Can you imagine?” June 25, 2018
The Wall, The Crawl, and the Courtyard June 24, 2018
“Yeah, no, […] June 23, 2018
On Leaving Cities June 21, 2018
Unknown knowns1 and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect June 20, 2018
Users hate software. June 20, 2018
Stories, by Steven Pinker June 18, 2018
Greg LeMond June 17, 2018
Chicago river at 1am June 16, 2018
Barren June 16, 2018
“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept” - John Ousterhout June 16, 2018