s09e17: The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3
0.0 Context setting Monday April 19, 2021. I started writing this outside on the deck, again, on a beautiful sunny day in Portland, OR until i realized I was...
s09e16: Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things
0.0 Context setting Friday April 16, 2021. Summer-ish has arrived in Portland. I’m out on the deck again, knees are visible, it’s forecast to hit 83 degrees...
s09e15: The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2
0.0 Context setting Monday April 12, 2021 and it’s a sunny afternoon in Portland, OR and I’m sitting outside on the front porch listening to Fearless...
s09e14: Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People
0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday April 9, 2021. Yesterday morning, I became a first-dose vaccinated member of hashtag-team-Pfizer, which is not the same as...
s09e13: Mist, everywhere
0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday April 2, 2021. I’m back in Portland after taking our kids to the coast for a few days and it’s warm and sunny. We’re going to...
s09e12: Blockchain buzz buzz buzz
0.0 Context Setting Writing this on Sunday March 28, 2021. It’s a grey day in Portland, Oregon, with the kind of rain that threatens to become more than a...
s09e11: Accommodations
0.0 Context setting I’m writing this on Monday March 22, 2021. It’s the start of Spring Break. I live in Portland, Oregon, so it’s been raining a lot, which...
s09e10: Why Not Put An RFID On Everything, and Griefing
0.0 Context setting It’s Sunday March 21, 2021. I have been playing a lot of Hades lately. I am sure there’s nothing to be read into me getting into a game...
s09e09: A New Hope
0.0 Context setting It’s Thursday 18 March, 2021. Check check. If you’re receiving this, then it means this newsletter has successfully left Substack and is...
s09e08: Wear a mask. It’ll change your life.
0.0 Context setting I’m writing this on Monday March 15, 2021. Today I am tired because yesterday was the spring time change in America and we collectively...
s09e07: The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet
0.0 Context setting Friday! Friday March 12, 2021. This week has been pretty good for work and writing, looks like. I haven’t covered it here yet, but...
s09e06: Three Things
0.0 Context setting I’m finishing this at night on Wednesday March 10, 2021. As far as I can tell, the children are asleep. I can hear a clock ticking. The...
s09e05: Eleven things, and I'm still terrified about that Twitter one
0.0 Context setting I’m writing this on Monday, March 8 2021 after a fairly productive morning: a bunch of admin; the kids got started on their day with...
s09e04: How can I help you?
0.0 Context setting It is Saturday 6 February, 2021. It has been a nice day in Portland. We went to the library and picked up some new books, returned some...
s09e03: A small collection of things
0.0 Context setting Tuesday, March 2, 2021. I am a terrible person because after finishing reading this sentence you will be aware that there is a...
s09e02: Despairing sisyphean absurdity
0.0 Context setting Sunday, February 28, 2021 in portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Earlier this week marked the formal point at which the United States passed 500,000...
s09e01: No Such Thing As A Blank Slate
0.0 Context Setting Around midday Pacific time on Monday January 18, 2021 in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. There’s a lot going on. As ever, if you’re able and...
s08e23: The Defensive Patent Pool
0.0 Context Setting I started writing this on Saturday 31 October 2020, which was Halloween (if you’re in a culture that does halloween), and two days until...
s08e22: On The Precipice, supporter edition
0.0 Context setting It’s Saturday, October 24 2020. There is just over a week left until the U.S. Presidential election, which is not just the U.S....
s08e22: On The Precipice
0.0 Context setting It’s Saturday, October 24 2020. There is just over a week left until the U.S. Presidential election, which is not just the U.S....
