[Soulful Computing] Austin, TX: Progress & Nostalgia

July 1, 2022

Hello friend, I'm in Austin over the 4th of July weekend to visit family. Every time I come back to Texas I have incredibly mixed feelings about how this...

[Soulful Computing] 100 Days and a Restart

June 26, 2022

Hello friend, It’s been over a year since I last visited your inbox. If you don’t remember me or simply don’t want to receive any more of these letters every...

[Soulful Computing] That New Computer Smell

April 25, 2021

Hello friend, Do you remember the way your first computer smelled? When I was quite young, maybe 7 or 8 years old, my dad came home one day with a plastic...

[Soulful Computing] Anything but NFTs

March 26, 2021

Hello friend, Thank you for all the outpouring of kind words for my newsletter last week . It was a huge catharsis to write it, and I was so touched that it...

[Soulful Computing] The Grief Multiplier and Gratitude

March 19, 2021

Hello friend, It's been a very long while since you've heard from me. A lot has happened since I last showed up in your inbox. Below is an extended, personal...

[Soulful Computing] "Happy" New Year? If you say so.

January 8, 2021

Hello friend, Uhhhmmm… Happy New Year? This week, we watched unprecedented events unfold at the United States Capitol, and as I am writing this, we don’t...

[Soulful Computing] Patience

December 18, 2020

There’s something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects as if I’m trying to make up for not being as productive as I could...

[Soulful Computing] The Show Must Go On(line)

December 7, 2020

I have a confession. Somewhere in middle of Act II of Hamilton, I think between "The Adams Administration" and "We Know," I fell fast asleep. This was the...

[Soulful Computing] Choose Your Own Adventure

November 13, 2020

Hello friend, Due to my choices, I died many, many times when I was a child. Luckily, I kept my fingers inside the pages and could always undo my mistakes....

[Soulful Computing] Bricolage 002

November 6, 2020

Hello friend, This is another Bricolage episode of the newsletter. From the first Bricolage: I made a plan for weeks like this, where an extended essay on a...

[Soulful Computing] Election Day 2020

November 3, 2020

(Originally posted on November 3, 2020) Hello friend, Today is Election Day in the United States in the middle of a pandemic. Citizens will participate in a...

[Soulful Computing] Error 1202

October 23, 2020

Hello friend, Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending. It was...

[Soulful Computing] (Not so) Quiet, Please

October 15, 2020

Hello friend, Dak Prescott, the 27-year-old quarterback for NFL's Dallas Cowboys, suffered an especially gruesome ankle injury last Sunday. I don't recommend...

[Soulful Computing] Bricolage 001

October 8, 2020

Hello friend, When I started this Soulful Computing newsletter project, I promised myself that I would prioritize consistent publication. I’ll send out a...

[Soulful Computing] Eye to Eye

October 1, 2020

Hello friend, Dressed in a long-sleeved, untucked white shirt, he climbs onto a platform in front of the audience. For the next ten minutes, he says nothing...

[Soulful Computing] Press 1 to Continue

September 24, 2020

Hello friend, I had a meeting with a colleague a few days ago, and she requested that instead of a video chat over Zoom, we should pick up the phone and have...

[Soulful Computing] Time is Weird in 2020

September 17, 2020

Hello friend, Time is weird in 2020, wouldn't you agree? I've been thinking a lot lately about a practice I learned from my friend, Jamie Zigelbaum, when we...

[Soulful Computing] Freediving into a Spreadsheet

September 10, 2020

Hello friend, Dan Bricklin's professors at the Harvard Business School thought he was wasting his time creating an electronic substitute for the paper...

[Soulful Computing] Happy Upgrade Day

September 3, 2020

Hello Friend, Happy Upgrade Day. You are on an operating table, immobilized, but fully awake. You glance sideways and see the brain implant in a sterile...

[Soulful Computing] Study With Us

August 27, 2020

Hi friend, I recently joined a global study group. I spend so many hours with these people during the pandemic that I now call them my friends. They have no...

[Soulful Computing] Touching a Heartbeat

August 20, 2020

Hello friend, I took the Apple Watch for a long walk last weekend. It did something unexpected and unattractive. I'm left wondering if I have any place for...

[Soulful Computing] Hello, World

August 13, 2020

Hello friend, Let's talk about source code. Here's a program. Right now, your instinct is to immediately delete this newsletter, thinking you've made a...