Open Resignation Letter to Philz Coffee

I have loved working for this company. I have made lifelong memories and friends at Philz and I am profoundly grateful for that.

I have also built relationships with wonderfully kind regular customers, one of them named Chris.

Where will our eccentrics go?

The devastating fire at the Oakland “Ghost Ship” warehouse is a tragedy that highlights the plight of young…

The Gilded Corpse of San Francisco

San Francisco is over. It’s done. It’s been over for a while, but the mission bros reserving Dolores Park areas with their fountains of $$$ is at once both emblematic and fatal. San Francisco is nothing more than a rich person’s playground, carved out of the corpse of…

Original Skin.

We are watching it unfold in slow motion. Like the stock market starting to fall in the Spring of 2000. When prices started to go…

So You Want To Play Bay Area Ultimate?

The glory, and the pain, of the mecca of ultimate

In Palo Alto, Google & Apple Would Have Been Evicted From Their First Garage Offices

Pueblo Gardens

Or How One Forgotten Neighborhood Shaped How Americans Live

Do you ride BART? I do. Daily.

And I hate it. It is by far the loudest most obnoxious experience I regularly put myself through.