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...