My life totally changed over the course of 2020 as did most people’s, but really it started that metamorphosis when I took a job that didn’t require commuting to an office. In July 2019 I was living in a smallish townhouse in a suburb of Boston, easily commutable to Wayfair’s…

Before I get into anything: I was going to post a newsletter today primarily talking about creative outlets, and then a treasonous coup was attempted by an armed mob less than 7 hours away from my house. I won’t use my small platform to talk about this — there’s plenty…

Sometime around May this year, I fell into a few different forms of writer’s block: I stopped being able to write music, I mostly stopped sharing things on social media, and I stopped writing this newsletter. …

So I’ve been busy making a podcast. I’ve also been a little depressed, infuriated, overwhelmed, grateful, loopy. A real who’s who of feelings. Typical for these days, I imagine, but it had gotten in the way of writing. A significant coping mechanism I’ve embraced during the pandemic is to accept the reality of things, and then avoid…

I don’t know about you, but I am very overwhelmed at the moment and pretty much all the time. Leave it to a global pandemic to cause people to fundamentally reconsider how people work and communicate and live their lives. I’m not personally leading a vastly different life compared to…

I missed my own writing deadline this week. I resolved to post something to my newsletter every Monday, and this week I failed. It’s a weird week to think about committing to anything, to be honest. Everyone’s either in or contemplating a self-quarantine; Alicia and I have basically been quarantining…

I don’t want to talk about work or technology or bettering oneself this week. I want to talk about the thing that was stuck in my head for the majority of the past week, which was the following phrase: “We can’t find the books; they must be in La Jolla.” …

I’m incredibly lucky to have a little bit of time to pursue hobbies or interests outside of my work and family life. One of the interests I’d been exploring was app development: I am deeply in love with the iOS/iPadOS ecosystem and have always wanted to tinker within it and…

This past week my previous employer laid off roughly 3% of its staff. A lot of people lost jobs, and I personally worked with about two dozen of them and knew those folks pretty well. 😞 I’m not going to pretend that this was a massively unexpected surprise; this is…