Introductory Throat-Clearing

You can call it a blog if you want

Hi friends. I’m going to use this space for some experiments for a little while, and as an incentive to bring longer threads of thought together into a coherent shape. Or possibly an incoherent shape, but at least some kind of shape.

Also, I’m realizing that I want to do more than just be, like, in-person encouragement for people. I’m angry seeing so many of my friends waste their potential. I’m angry that there aren’t better resources out there to help people figure out how to be more alive, more able to feel their feelings and pursue their fullest ambitions.

Plus

Richard Ludlow

is doing this and I’m jealous.

Some problems and experiences I want to think through:

• How do I experience and heal from my own anxiety? What have I been learning, what’s been helpful for me? What is out there that seems worth exploring for my own growth and healing?

• What practices lead people to healing and growth?

• How can we maintain our time and attention when so much technology seems devoted to taking it away from us?

• How do I create a life full of human connection, both to people immediately around me and physically distant friends and family?

• How does an internal vs external internal locus of control change how people experience the world?

• What is it like to design software in accordance with Christopher Alexander’s nameless quality?

• What are my Feynman problems?

You can expect: infrequent posting; sentence-case section titles; images of things I’ve encountered wandering around outside. Here’s a little figure on a beach in San Francisco:

Talk soon.