Expressively publishing on the open web since 1996.
Entranced by Portland, Oregon since 2017.
Synchronicity: those mysterious moments when inner and outer worlds collide. Do they prove there's some sort of purpose at work in the universe? I'm not saying that (but I'm not not saying it either). In my personal experience, an eye towards synchronicities can have a profound effect on well-being.
Once again, it's never been a better time to be a geek and a film buff. But I'm ready for a change. So here are my end-of-year top picks outside of Sci-Fi…and the results may surprise you!
This isn’t actually an essay about Elon Musk. It’s about the fact that we keep trusting these people. And by “these people” I mean the people who look, talk, and behave like Elon Musk. Perhaps it’s time to bust the myth of the Silicon Valley-style boy genius once and for all, and instead look to egalitarian principles to ensure the health and safety of our digital future.
I love remote work, and I'm hugely grateful for all my online friends around the world who I get to talk geek with. But there's also something special and unique about friendships IRL. I didn't realize the toll the pandemic had taken on me until I was flat on my back.
Where I've landed in my quest for a purposeful spiritual path after leaving the tenets of Evangelical doctrines behind.
The person I once was isn’t somebody I ever wish to be again. But perhaps in another ten years…well, I’ll be saying that about my present self.
This year I want to make a bold statement with what I do and how I live—only this time not as a desperate attempt to appease a deity, but as a way of expressing the core values that make me Me.
Once again, it's never been a better time to be a geek and a film buff. Here are my end-of-year top picks…and the results may surprise you!
There was a time not long ago when my life was in a major upheaval. Signs of online success were slim to none. I wasn’t sure if anyone out there would really care if I were suddenly Thanos-snapped out of existence. Yet the valuable lesson I came to learn during that dreadful time was how to become intrinsically motivated, the significance of value creation, and the trick of cultivating T-shaped skills.
The supremacy of App Store apps on mobile devices remains greatly exaggerated.
I wasn’t given a blueprint for this. I never expected to be Married-No-Longer. But now, after my divorce, I have to decide what comes next.
Sure, we're not out of the woods yet. But it truly feels like we've turned a corner.
Kicking off my first blog series for 2021: “Tales from Decrypt: Stories of Woe and Wonder from My 25-Year Career as a Freelance Web Developer”
The world had gone mad. I thought I’d hit rock-bottom. Little did I know I was on the brink of a life-changing breakthrough.
It's taken a global pandemic for many of us to realize something profound about the web. It isn't just a technology which helps the world go around. Today, on a certain level, is IS the world.