I’m a software person who keeps a topographic map within reach of every desk I’ve ever worked at.
Most days I’m building products — small ones, lately. I like teams of four. I like decisions that are reversible. I like the part of a project where you haven’t yet been clever, and the path forward is obvious.
The rest of the time I’m in the mountains, or reading about them, or writing essays that are nominally about something else and turn out to also be about them. I learned to read a map before I learned to read a stock chart and I think it shows in how I work.
I grew up in the Midwest, which sounds like the wrong place to fall in love with peaks, but the flat ground has its own way of pointing somewhere. I now live in Colorado, which solves the geography problem and creates several new ones.
This site is a long-running personal notebook — selected work, essays, and photographs from trips. It’s built by hand, hosted on a server I can name, and edited whenever I have something to say.