I grew up in Arizona, as did my dad, and his dad, and his dad, and his dad, who first arrived to the state in 1894.

A different great-great-great-grandfather of mine was a railroad executive who is attributed for the phrase "this is a hell of a way to run a railroad". He wrote a ~1000 page career manifesto on railroads. I republished the final section as a short essay that's still relevant today: The Grammar of Industry.

In highschool I liked Vonnegut and Dostoevsky. The fiction book I read most recently was Eumeswil. Before that, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Neuromancer, and Cryptonomicon. I read a lot more nonfiction than fiction, but I usually skim. Two nonfiction books I read without skimming recently are Masters of Doom and Chaos Monkeys.

I put myself through college, mostly thanks to an academic scholarship and a job helping maintain the world's foremost software for extraterrestrial cartography.

I do freelancing for full stack software dev.

I like making simple music and visual art. I play acoustic guitar for fun. This website dates back to 2019. At the time, it was primarily a showcase of my visual art and a graffiti page where anyone could submit a doodle anonymously.

I skateboarded almost every day in high school and college. It was fun exercise and a great way to get around campus in a hurry. Running to class is a lot more socially awkward than booking it on a skateboard.

I work on hobby video games with my brother and our two closest childhood friends.

Many people know me from my urbit apps, especially "%radio".