To be. To ponder what that means.
To cook and share a good meal
with family and friends.
To sing and play music, to wander
slowly through a landscape,
to have a glass and a smoke
and go deep into some invisible thing
among treasured companions
and treasured strangers.

To stare into the night sky
at the dust I once was, the dust I am
and someday shall be and know that
I’m home.

Ever-changing, always myself.

(…Sir, this is a Wendy’s)

Stuff I Like

(The Whole Nerd Catalog)

Current Stack

  • Browser: Arc

  • Calendar: Fantastical

  • Data Backup: Backblaze

  • Email: Spark Mail

  • Financial Management: Copilot Money. Exquisitely thoughtful and well-designed app.

  • Notes

    • Tot. Basically a scratchpad that syncs everywhere.

  • Password Manager: 1Password

  • Podcasts: Apple Podcasts. I switched in order to be able to more seamlessly manage subscriptions to different services.

    • Previously used Overcast, which is still a great app.

  • Recipe Manager: Crouton

  • RSS: Netnewswire

  • Screenshots: Cleanshot X*

  • To-Dos: Todoist

  • Tools for Thought

    • Apple Notes for home. After trying a number of the big names (Obsidian, Anytype, et al.), I’ve reverted to the flexibility and portability of Apple’s native note system, which now offers interlinking and Markdown export.

    • Notion for work. I utilize a complex set of databases to manage custom homebuilding projects, CRM, etc.

  • Utilities

    • Raycast for app launching, keyboard macros, etc. This is one of the first things I’d load onto a new machine, and one of the last I’d give up. It’s one of those utilities that allows me to navigate my computer closer to the speed of thought.

      • Honorable mention to Alfred App, which I used for years.

    • Bartender*, for keeping my menu bar minimal

    • CleanMyMac X*, for a quick, clean UI to uninstall, purge and otherwise tidy up my computer

    • Dropover for an effortless drag-and-drop shelf, which I use multiple times daily.

  • Writing: iA Writer

And others, of course. These are just my main stack. If you’re curious about any of the above, or about other tool types not listed, just ask.

*I’ve paid for all of these separately in the past, but now I pay for them via subscription with Setapp for convenience.

Playlists

  • Flow Playlist

    My most-listened playlist.

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  • Evening Playlist

    Just like it says on the tin. Great for daytime relaxing too, if you need it.

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  • Driving Playlist

    A mix of bangers and breathers. For road trips and commutes.

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  • Christmas Playlist

    My favorite tracks, plus a little Barry White because why not? He’s timeless.

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  • New Funk Playlist

    Not old funk.

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  • Weekend Playlist

    Songs that make me feel like time doesn’t exist. Makes the weekend longer, guaranteed.

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Friends & Folks I Admire

  • Useful Yard by André Mora
    An expert’s guide to having a yard, and making it useful. This isn’t some home and garden TV hogwash. It’s about learning to read the landscape by mastering the language of the plants in your yard. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, but universal in its essence

  • allwell
    A creative sewing studio that has great resources (and zines!) for making quilts and other textiles

  • Ben Pieratt
    Bold and thoughtful logo and identity design work

  • Pre-Brand
    Marketplace of proto-brands for startups. Made by Ben Pieratt, intended for all

  • Gordon Brander
    New thinking about ecosystems, tech and the future of decentralized protocols

  • Subconscious / Noosphere
    A protocol for thought, by Gordon Brander and Chris Joel

  • Bartosz Ciechanowski
    Some of the most insane, thorough, detailed and beautiful visual essays I’ve ever seen on topics I didn’t know I wanted to learn about

  • Bret Victor
    One of the brightest minds on the bleeding edge of tech

  • Maggie Appleton
    Beautifully illustrated, thoughtful essays on a range of tech-related ideas

  • Nicholas Felton
    All sorts of dataviz and selfquant stuff

  • Wait But Why / Tim Urban
    Maniacally researched and irreverently illustrated treatises on a wild range of topics

  • A Trail Tale
    A seriously bonkers pixel art chronicle of Andy Moliski’s trek across the PCT

Typography

This site is set in Forma DJR Deck (headers) and Input Sans Narrow (text) from DJR. I also subscribe to DJR’s Font of the Month Club because he’s prolific and precise, and his fonts are always on point.

These are some of the foundries whose work I admire most:

Foundries

Resources

Other