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 apparently coined 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.

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 and anything else that's useful to others.

I like making simple music and visual art. I play acoustic guitar for fun.

I liked skateboarding in high school and college. I still skate sometimes, but it was a part of my daily life for about 6 years.

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".