Getting a lay of the land
While I make no promise that the content here is coherent, I’ve still tried to stay organized using tags to make things easy to read and navigate.
Below I’ve laid out different tag groups. Think of these more like one of many hiking trails than an exhaustive table of contents — less neatly-organized-discrete-ideas and more choose-your-own-adventure.
🌳 Garden Trail
Garden characterizes ideas by their development “stage” and my perceived clarity, a la classical digital garden.
- soil: unexplored, unconnected, foundation
- seed: new, simple, investment
- sprout: growing, active, flexible
- sapling: developed, sturdy, distinct
- tree: prominent, nuanced, entrenched, crystallized
🧭 Ethos Trail
Ethos ascribes meaning to ideas and aims to link ideas based on where they fall in my values.
- presence: on being mindful in an increasingly mindless world
- connection: on loneliness and intentionally sharing my time
- body: on appreciating and cherishing my bodily functions
- self-care: on taking care of my mind, body and soul
- conviction: on acknowledging our psychological need to feel heard and social responsibility to speak up
- exploration: on seeing the wonders of the world
- investment: on core financial literacy and growth within our financial system
- business: on my creative practice of running a business and aligning the acton aligning money with what we care about most deeply
🔧 Maker Trail
Pathway for my relatively unstructured ideas — the thinking that hasn’t necessarily been tied to a meaningful narrative or placed neatly into a garden bed.
- software: on designing effective software systems, building seamless products and broadly doing great work
- coffee: on brewing, experiencing and exploring my favorite cross-cultural household staple
- business: on my creative practice of running a business and aligning the acton aligning money with what we care about most deeply
- handball: on playing the sport that keeps me in touch with the my body, soul and community of New York City
- woodworking: on cutting, jointing and sanding my way to tangible goods
- psychology: on trying to understand weird human things — what excites, inspires, motivates, confuses, saddens, and/or drains us as people
- finance: on deeply understanding financial literacy and its related systems
- crypto: on the evolving technology and industry of crypto-(currencies, economies, communities)