Exile Lifestyle

What aspects of what I’m doing today will be meaningful ten years from now? Or rather, which components of what aspects of the many things making up our lives at any point are worth noting in some external fashion, and…

I have several mental models I use to generally keep moving in a desirable direction, despite (and sometimes fueled by) the vicissitudes of reality. One such model is imagining myself as a spring that coils and uncoils, compresses slowly before…

If you live to be 77-years-old (the average lifespan in the wealthy world), you will have lived about 4,000 weeks. That’s…intimidating, isn’t it? It’s not a small number, but it also seems impossibly minuscule to encompass everything we’ll ever do—no…

The word “productivity” has its origins in the 19th century, back when industrialization and scaling-up everything was becoming the dominant approach to, and philosophy of labor. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that the word literally refers to the rate of…

I’m in the process of rifling through old notes and photographs and terse, phone-shot videos, unearthing and examining contemporaneous media artifacts to remind myself of the context surrounding bits of journal-writing I’ve jotted over the past several years. This is…

For what feels like ages, I’ve been trying to figure out how to unify my many and diverse projects into a more sensical whole, without stifling the identity and benefits of each project, individually. I’ve also wanted a sort of…

Since mid-2020, I’ve been trying to figure out how to rearrange my disparate jumble of professional activities into something more cohesive and comprehensible. Many people who engage with something I make only engage with that one thing, and are maybe…

There are countless possible ways to measure and parcel-out our time, but one of the more practical ones, for my purposes, is that of “cycles.” Within this context, a cycle is a period of energetic continuity that can last 15…

In my experience, the more I learn about all the things, the easier it becomes to learn about any single, specific thing. My understanding of design grew more rapidly after I started looking into fine art, computer science, and publishing.…

These past few weeks I’ve been shoveling money into my third-hand, 2007 Prius to replace the hybrid battery and the ABS system—both of which have recently stopped working—and to replace the catalytic converter after it was carved out by thieves.…