Nomadism
I am spending 2021 on the road, traveling to all the national parks. I’ll also be trying local food and visiting other attractions.
I like to travel, see new places, and try new things. I’m also very interested in minimalism and living a sustainable life. Here are some of my adventures.
Winter
Preparations
Intentional Community, Permaculture, & Arcology
Sociological Essays
- XXI
- Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
- It *HAS* to be you.
- “Intelligence” Is A Racist Lie
- The Core Strength of Community-Centered Activism Built on Radical Queer Anarcho-Communism
- The Slow-Motion Mass Suicide Of American Neo-Conservatism
- Black Online – Cyberspace, Culture, and Community: Final Project
- “The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis.”
- Giovanni’s Room Refutes Sexual Orientation
- Conversation with a Professor
- Coronavirus and The Environment
- The fact that housing is almost always only being built by investors means it’s not possible to have affordable housing for everyone.
- Sexual orientation is not a “real fact” about people.
- Why does a latte cost so much? Where does all that money go?
- The State of the Housing Crisis
- Sexism: An Ameliorative Approach
- Queer Studies: Gender Is The Problem
- Manifesta: Gender panopticism must be dismantled.
- Environmental Problems and Solutions: A cautious optimism that some manner of future may still exist for humanity.
- Fall 2019: Weekly Intersectional Privilege Event
Housing
Book Clubs
Books shown by topic. Each topic is a Facebook group containing events and discussions.
Content Business
Iterating on successes from the earlier 12 startups challenge, I decided to launch some more startups.
Burning Man!
- Playa Pergola Proposal
- Simple Solar: Lighting and Charging
- Making Cowboy Cold Brew Iced Coffee
- 2020 Burn Week Alternative Camping Trip
- Communal Storage
- Burning Man Structure Ideas From The Expanse
- Data: Are Shiftpods Actually Cooler?
- DIY High-Precision Multi-Zone Temperature Logger
- Cheap Flat-Top Shade Structure (Alternate Design)
The Levels Challenge:
Build 12 Startup Products in 12 Months
- Startup 12: Smart Mailer
- Startup 11: PHP TTS Webhooks
- Startup 10: Astria
- The Levels Finish Line In Sight
- Startup 9: What are you wearing today?
- Startup 8: Stardate.Today
- Startup 7: Top Story Review
- Startup 6: Exotic Weapons
- Startup 5: Condensr
- Startup 4: CronPUT
- Startup 3: Draupnr
- Startup 2: RSI Alert
- Startup 1: Securities Science
- The Levels Challenge
My Reading List (📚,🎥,💻)
The best books, documentaries, and podcast episodes I think you should know about.
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 0)
- Thrawn Ascendancy (Thrawn 9)
- Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 8)
- Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 7)
- Thrawn by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 6)
- Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 5)
- Our History is the Future by Nick Estes
- Specter of the Past by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 4)
- The Last Command by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 3)
- Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 2)
- Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 1)
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Burning Chrome by William Gibson
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Down Girl by Kate Manne
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- Woken Furies by Richard K Morgan
- Discussion of Conscious with Sam Harris and Annaka Harris
- Lying by Sam Harris
- Letter To A Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- The End of Faith by Sam Harris
- Understanding Humans In The Wild with Sam Harris
- Tiamat’s Wrath by James S A Corey
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Random Incomplete Ideas
I have long struggled with what to do with random ideas I have. I kept a journal and then I kept a todo list and then I made a database and it was just too much, especially because I wanted to be able to go back and do drafts of the ideas. So here we are, my unfiltered stream of consciousness, probably altered. Enjoy.
Note: There are really a lot of these so I’m trying to add a few every day. It will be a while until they are all added.
- covid colonists
- Thrawn’s generator
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Ham Grinder
- Gamma Yayoi
- Housing: HFA MVP
- Capsules in Tiny Homes
- Demographic Signage
- Moot+
- Microcafe + Microhotel
- Multilingual Online Bookstore
- Short Story: Gaudi Geodesic Masion Park Enclave
- Metric Limit Orders
- List of Self-Hosted SaaS Alternatives
- SQLLVM
- Open Source NetCam Software
- SCP Tale: Adapting
- Money talks: How low can rates go?
- Sartre v Harris
- dm
- Resin Domes
- Field Projectors
- Berthing Together
- Life Expectancy Countdown App
- Interface Marketplace
- Justice Social
- wildcard redirects as a service
- Librarian
- Geodesic vacuum chambers
- Mushrooms from Restaurant Waste