Be a Better Person. Say Thank You.

A Heads Up to the Lady Who Got My Old Couch

March 19, 2014

3 things to be grateful for today…

1. I met the carpenter today who is building a piece furniture I designed for a work project. He had confidence and a presence that radiated a sense of pride in the work he was doing.

March 9, 2016

3 Things to be grateful for today…

1. The many and varied bruises and cuts spread across my body that are healing after an amazing 38 mile canoe adventure over the past weekend.
2. The promise of playing a show on Saturday night.

March 11, 2016

3 Things to be grateful for today…

1. I slept deeply last night, traveling through distant lands as if I were flying, weightless above the world and woke to the warm custard light of sunrise coming through the window.
2. The most comfortable pair of pants…

March 4, 2014

3 things to be grateful for today…

1. I spent the morning interviewing kids at Georgia Tech. It’s refreshing to see so much raw enthusiasm and unselfconscious ambition blazing without a shred of irony or cynicism.

June 21, 2013

3 things to be grateful for today…

1. Allison Krauss’s voice.When she sings you have to…

March 18, 2014

3 things to be grateful for today…

1. A nice cup of Earl Grey. Something about the smell of Bergamot tea can make any obstacle seem surmountable.
2. I was able to solve a particularly cantankerous issue with NodeJS and Amazon web…

February 22, 2014 

3 things to be grateful for today…

1. Having the will to get back up, dust myself off and make a run at this thing* again.
2. The satisfying clickity-clack of the keys when the words are flowing, no matter what they are: code…

June 27, 2013

3 things to be grateful for today…

1. The satisfying rhythm of typing and the mechanical click of the keys when the words flow almost as fast as thoughts.
2. The way the wind stirs through the trees, turning their leaves inside out…

February 28, 2014

3 Things to be grateful for today…

1. I spent much of the day immersed in a new mobile programming platform. It’s an old familiar place — the unfamiliar, like scanning a switchboard of spaghetti wires, all with a purpose that must be discovered. By…