Positive Job and Life Updates :)
Hello.
So many wonderful things going on. I just had a gender affirming surgery, and I also accepted a Lead Developer position at The Processing Foundation starting August 1st. They are a non-profit org dedicated to computational and artistic learning in both arts and technology fields, and the diverse set of people who bring it all to life. I will be working on the project born out of MIT Media Lab, Processing. You can read more about it here.
Also here is the source code 🤓: The Source Code
For me, to be able to bring my software expertise, leadership ability, and passion for creative tools and education to a seminal project in the FLOSS arts space is a huge milestone.
I find ways to say this in almost every email I realize, but I’m so lucky to be alive. This might be the worst timeline to be on, but I don’t belong on any other timeline but this one. I’m a different person on the other one(s). Moon is only okay on the other timelines. Also they (plural) are named after other celestial bodies, which is very sick and very tight. ALSO WE’RE ALL HACKERS.
Speaking of the worst timeline
Recently I was reminded that the most important thing to do this situation (fascism, ongoing climate catastrophe, capitalism, downfall etc.) is to get your mind right. I can't plan for every possible outcome.
Good decisions in this very moment improve your very next moment. Micro and macroscopically. This is how it’s always been in every situation.
You can’t plan around a chaotic person’s whims ya know! Just respond from a grounded place.
Listen to me spout all this nonsense, while I struggle with intimacy. Oops!
Turning 40
I’m looking forward to turning 40 in September. Not sure I’m going to live for 100 years these days!
Dating Update
Please come at me, bro. Please. Just tell me how you feel, bro.
Yoga Instructor Update
Should I become one?! Like you definitely want to sign up for Moon’s class, right?
I love you,
Moon