A finished video, a steep hike from camp at 8,500 feet on new poles, and a memory of running out of breath on a Telluride mountaintop in 2022. On Substack now.

Three days of work went into one Hi-Fi Lonesome song. The video, built from drone footage off the Million Dollar Highway, is embedded right in the entry. On Substack now.

Move day from the North Rim. Shannon returns from the canyon's hardest hike. And a shift in how I think about containers: the expression matters more than the folder it goes in.

4% battery, a campfire over the canyon, 26 nights since resupply, and a realization about creative infrastructure that's still working on me.

The algorithm is just the latest costume. On the pressure that never gives a command, the correction that always finds its way home, and what continuity actually means.

On the two kinds of people you already know, and the singular pattern that explains the gap between them. It's not discipline. It's something simpler and harder to name.

Three essays on the gap between what the label implies and what's actually happening inside your body. Gum. Seed oils. Private equity. Systems that were never designed with you in mind.