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A Week of Being Kin Lane - October 6th, 2025

October 6, 2025

It was a lovely week all around in NYC. The weather keeps acting like it is going to switch to fall, but the temperature keeps coming back up. It is just...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - September 29th, 2025

September 29, 2025

The week started with a heightened level of Squirrel Patrol activity. We issued probably 25 tickets, had a high speed chase with one squirrel down the middle...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - September 22nd, 2025

September 22, 2025

It was a lovely weekend, and end to a very pleasant week in NYC. I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like, but I am slowly easing back into my fiction and...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - September 15th, 2025

September 15, 2025

The weather in New York is just amazing right now. It has been in the 70s most days, with mornings in the park absolutely stunning. The majority of the...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - September 8th, 2025

September 8, 2025

I took Labor Day off. This meant I didn’t send out a newsletter last week. It felt right. I like the structure and discipline of sending a newsletter weach...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - August 25th, 2025

August 25, 2025

I am mostly over having Covid. And while things are mostly back to normal, I don’t feel like there is much more to report here than there was the previous...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - August 18th, 2025

August 18, 2025

I had Covid all week. It sucked. It didn’t leave time and energy for much in my week. Covid is a fascinating consequence of being alive today. During the...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - August 11th, 2025

August 11, 2025

City Streets in NYC bookended our week. The first Saturday we went all the way down to the Brooklyn Bridge, and this week went part way downtown, but then...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - August 4th, 2025

We did not have a bike for most of the week. It was very sad. We had a part get lost in the mail. We quickly ordered a second one, but it took two more days...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - July 28th, 2025

We had multiple bike issues keeping us off the road this week. The spokes on our rear wheel were needing tightening, as the wheel began wobbling. However,...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - July 21st, 2025

Facebook continued its decline as part of my overall digital footprint. If it wasn’t for a handful of people I adore there, I wouldn’t visit FB at all. I...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - July 14th, 2025

I found it difficult to maintain a grip this week. The world really gets to me right now, but this episode was mostly just being Kin, and I think it was the...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - July 7th, 2025

We made our way back to NY from Maine this week. The contrast between these two states of being is so very stark for me. I do love the simpleness and beauty...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - June 30th, 2025

The week began with a trip to Paoli, Pennsylvania—one stop past Philadelphia on the Amtrak train. I spent the day working with my new business partner Jerome...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - June 23rd, 2025

When I look back over the week for these newsletters I have to depend on two sources of information 1) my iPhone photos 2) my Bluesky. Normally I’d throw Kin...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - June 16th, 2025

I am continuing to shift gears towards working on my new startup Naftiko. I really do enjoy this part of the startup journey. I am neck deep in market...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - June 9th, 2025

There was no writing and public storytelling this week. Well, any writing that I published to API Evangelist, Kin Lane, or elsewhere. The only thing I did...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - June 2nd, 2025

The weather in NYC has been just lovely. It is everything you hear about when people talk fondly of spring in New York. Even with a few rainy days Poppy and...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - May 26th, 2025

It took me until Wednesday this week to recover from the technology conference I attended last week. I can’t help but feel like all the nutrients in the tech...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - May 19th, 2025

It was a busy week. I keynoted the API Days conference here in NYC, had family in town, and Audrey had ran in the Brooklyn Half Marathon. The temperature was...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - May 12th, 2025

This week was all PoppyRLane. Well, every week is, but this week I really dialed in how I run our cameras during our daily ride, allowing me to easily...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - May 5th, 2025

While riding our bike throughout New York City we see people walking through the world with their minds tethered to some indoor environment, and cops on cell...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - April 28th, 2025

The week started with a flat on the sidecar—which put us out of commission for two whole days. By Tuesday we had a couple of new tubes and a tire, so Poppy...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - April 20th, 2025

I am doing the work to shift my perspective as the API Evangelist from a producer (tech insiders) view of things towards more of a consumer view of things...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - April 14th, 2025

As I struggle to reconcile what I do as the API Evangelist with how APIs are now being wielded in the federal government, as well as my battle against the...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - April 7th, 2025

I have been struggling to understand why so many people would gleefully and openly celebrate the theft of writing and art via AI. Then I realize they haven’t...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 31st, 2025

It was a hard week. The toxicity of what is happening to my country as well as the industry I work in caught up with me. I drove the vehicle into the...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 24th, 2024

I decided to start going to the gym in our building this last week. I did about 6 miles on the indoor bike and played around on a few of the lifty machiney...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 17th, 2024

Last week’s newsletter was sent from the Oregon Coast. Shortly after hitting send my brother and his wife drove me to Portland where we had lunch and they...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 9th, 2024

I know the world is unraveling but I managed to get myself lost in the anarchist world as described by Ursula K Le Guin in The Dispossessed this week. The...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 3rd, 2024

To help me prepare for the next technological trend coming right after artificial intelligence I spent time reverse engineering a player piano that was...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 24th, 2024

February 24, 2025

The Etch A Sketch for our life was shaken by Poppy eating a small dog size tennis ball on Tuesday and having surgery to remove it by Thursday. It is...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 17th, 2024

February 17, 2025

I neglected to include in my newsletter last week that Audrey and I went to see Blind Injustice, Six lives, 117 years wrongly incarcerated, one story of...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 10th, 2024

February 10, 2025

Coming out of last weeks writing on my blog and this week’s continued collision between this administration, AI, and our federal government, I am thinking a...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 3rd, 2024

February 3, 2025

It continues to be that bitter cold in New York City which leaves me reminiscing about California. Morning walks in the park have been very cold, but they...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - January 26th, 2024

January 27, 2025

I have been enjoying the impact my API Evangelist newsletter has had on my week, and was hoping to do the same on the Kin Lane front. I am stopping using “I”...