A Digital Garden

Category: Blog

  • Cache of Recent Tweets I’ve bookmarked

    — — — — — — — — — Really connected with this one. It’s hard to remember what living in the pre-Covid world felt like. Such is the rapid firing of the immersive technology pistons. —

  • Looking Silly in Order to Learn

    This picture just popped up in my iPhone memories and is giving me an appreciation for how far I’ve come since my first real endeavor into running. What a fun memory! Plus, Shepherd, you’re like two months old here. And now you’re almost 6! During the Covid-19 pandemic, I discovered the Salomon YouTube channel and…

  • 2026 Eugene Marathon

    This was a revealing event for me. Maybe the most revealing point of reference for why I like to run. Originally, I decided I wanted to run a sub-3 hour marathon. I picked Eugene in January 2026 and started training. I trained enough to get close enough to that goal while leaving enough on the…

  • Note to self: Skills I’m Interesting in Learning

    Believe it or not, there are better ways I could be spending my time than waiting on the world by scrolling Twitter. Here’s a list of things to learn that come to mind: It almost feels childish to have to write about this, but I’m recognizing there I need to start doing more and learning…

  • Why Smart Money Seems Dumb Right Now

    What’s that Warren Buffett quote about when the tide goes out you’ll see who’s been swimming naked? Seems to me like we’re about to see a lot of willies. Every day since the Iran War started, one opens Yahoo Finance, or whatever your app of choice is, and sees one of two headlines corresponding with…

  • I’ve Been Thinking About the Strait of Hormuz.

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the Strait of Hormuz recently. What would you do if it closed? That’s probably not even the primary question: you didn’t even know it existed a month ago. How many layers, then, do you pull back to start trying to understand what you would do if it closed when…

  • Tour de France: Drinking Raids

    Have been thinking about why it feels like learning about things like this promotes a sense of other-world-ness. I just think, “this kind of charm and uniqueness is gone.” I’m not sure it really is, and one could choose to live this way, but the culture does something to enforce or not enforce a belief…

  • What’s Rational vs. What’s Real

    I bought a decent amount (for us) of crypto in late 2021 (“bad” time) and held it through the whole bear market and next bull market, until last Tuesday when I decided to sell it hours before President Trump’s threat to kill 90 million people in Iran. 4 years isn’t that much time spent in…

  • Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)

    Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…

  • “A Psalm of Life”

    Tell me not, in mournful numbers,    Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers,    And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest!    And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,    Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not…