There is nothing more exhilarating to me than wandering around and stumbling on an unexpected adventure. It can be exhausting, biking up to twin peaks from the ferry building or hiking Mt. Fuji in a storm. But the exhaustion goes unnoticed as some inner, superhuman energy pumps me forward.

Everyone wants to be in SF. It was voted the coolest city in America, who doesn’t want to be in the coolest city? So I got a job in SF at an ad tech startup and moved up from Santa Monica to waterfront Oakland (only reasonable place for a 2 br apartment).