2023

I am working at Supernormal. I have these goals for the year.

2022

I left my job at Stripe. I launched an AI-powered reader called Infeather starting in newsletter form and I'm working on it as an indie-bootstrapped startup.

We brought home a new member of the family, a havanese puppy we have named Lola.

I rejoined the workforce as Head of AI at Supernormal.

I ran the Seattle Marathon - my fifth marathon.

2021

COVID continued. This year was a work from home year for Stripe, although the office re-opened in September. I started to travel again, taking a post-vaccine trip to Iceland.

In my spare time, I am continuing with synthy song writing and my coding side project whch learns which links are worth sharing.

I ran the Seattle Marathon - my fourth marathon - in 3 hours, 57 minutes.

Here are 10 goals I had for 2021 and how they turned out.

2020

In 2020, COVID hit, we moved from Bali to Australia, then we returned from the travel year to Seattle and I started at Stripe.

Back in Seattle, I started composing progrocky/synthy/80s rock songs in GarageBand for fun.

Here were 10 goals I set at the start of 2020, before COVID changed everything: 2020 Goals and how they turned out.

2019

In July 2019, after five years working at Facebook, I decided to take a one year sabbatical. My family and I moved to Bali and explored Southeast Asia. We lived in a house on a rice field in Ubud. I took some time lapse photos which I made into a video:

Here were the 10 goals I set at the start of 2019: 2019 Goals.

2018

2018 was a big year. I started work on the misinformation team at Facebook, and shortly after the mid-term elections my father passed away of cancer.

Here were the 10 goals I set at the start of 2018: 2018 Goals.

2017

Here were the goals I set at the start of 2017: 2017 Goals.

2016

This was the year I turned 40! I moved to the Search team at Facebook. I went on an epic hiking trip to the Hornstrandir nature reserve in Iceland. Here were the goals I set at the start of 2016: 2016 Goals

2015

In 2015, our second daughter Jasmine was born, and we took three months leave spent in Iceland, London, Crete, Sicily, the Canary Islands, and Japan. I wrote a lot about the experience of traveling with a 3 year old and an infant at this blog.



I also recorded some sounds on this trip.

Before taking this trip, I also climbed Mt. Rainier, here is some GoPro footage:

This video, from my Mt. Pilchuk hike, is comprised of 2300 frames unintentionally captured by my camera. I had placed the camera in the back of the backpack and the mesh strap held down the shutter release until the battery ran out. Please notice just how rocky a trail this was. My feet still hurt.

Here were the goals I set at the start of 2015:

2015 Goals

2014

This year I started working at Facebook and took a retreat in the Sahara. Here were the goals I set at the start of 2014: 2014 Goals

2012

My first daughter Chloe was born.

2010

I finished my Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara. We held the Road Junky Travel Film Festival in Berlin. We took an amazing thru hike in the Sierra Nevadas.

2009

Elizabeth and I got married.

2004

In 2004, after traveling around the world for more than two years, I returned to the United States and started a travel website called Roadjunky with my friend Tom Thumb, who I met in Panama. Here is the original screenshot from the Internet Archive in Dec. 2004. The site is still going!