Simpler Machines

Mere Being - 034 - August - Diane's place, State Fair,

[NMD EXQ 15/60] Two homes? No home?

[NMD EXQ 14/60] Mountain Thunderstorm

[NMD EXQ 12/60] Solar company or dispensary?

[NMD EXQ 11/60] Guests

Super Bowls Georg should not be counted

[GR02.15] Flowerboy Project Coffee

[NMD EXQ 9/60] Walked the dog

[NMD EXQ 8/60] The new place

[NMD EXQ 7/60] Jackass Joe's UFO Jerky

[NMD EXQ 5/60] It's a pretty big canyon

Most Integration Failures Are Stupid

[NMD EXQ 3/60] The internet at the Grand Canyon is very bad

[NMD EXQ 3/60] THE HIGHWAY OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC

[GR02.14] Bi-Rite marigolds

Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"

[GR02.13] lake irises

What I'm Watching for on Every NFL Team in 2026

[GR02.12] kitchen tulips, again

Mere Being - 033 - July - Game Changers, Ethnographies, Hollandaise Sauce

How I use Capacities as a Zettelkasten

[GR02.12] outside a restaurant in Tahoe

[GR02.11] lavender, I think

Why AI writing is so exhausting

[GR02.10] tiny pink flowers

Divination-Driven Decision-Making

Concourse Lives!

[GR02.09] chrysanthemum

[GR02.08] lilies and plastic

Testing Problems are Design Problems

Mere Being - 032 - June - summer sports, Brandon Sanderson, tagines

See a good bird

[GR02.07] I don't know what kind of flower this is

Want to be happier at work? Try joining a church

[GR02.06] camellia, single

The Tech Debt Snowball Method

[GR02.07] camellias, senescent

Why I don't use story points

[GR02.05] camellias, several

Mere Being - 031 - May - a paid membership program

Something is Very Wrong in San Francisco

[GR02.04] jacaranda

notes from o11ycon 2026

[GR02.03] hibiscus

Software delivery will continue to be non-linear

[GR02.02] roses, outdoors, Venice

Is feedback really a gift?

Mere Being - 030 - April - meditation, improv, and the NFL draft

[GR02.01] roses, indoors, Venice

[GR01.16] winter branches

[GR01.15] Edgar

[GR01.14] false spring ice

Mere Being - 029 - March - winter, software, Marathon

[GR01.13] bench on the hill

[GR01.12] what's left of another shrine

[GR01.11] red bow, March 9

[GR01.10] the lake is the last of winter

Mere Being - 028 - January/February -ICE, Red Mars, tinned fish

[GR01.09] the lake itself, on a sunny day in December

[GR01.08] memorial for sam nordquist

[GR01.07] sled brake

[GR01.06] November tree shrine

[GR01.05] hay bales for sledding

[GR01.04] baseball diamond

[GR01.03] frozen crabapples, 4 long blocks from where Renee Nicole Good was shot by ICE

[GR01.02] streetlights at sunset, before the lake finished freezing

Mere Being - 027 - December - Manny's, Sicko Street, Hot Pot

[GR 01.01] a tree by the lake in November

Mere Being - 026 - November - Zen Center, Being Cold

Mere Being - 025 - October - Minnesota, Quail Egg, Cabbage

Mere Being - 024 - September - Moving, Football, Laughter

Mere Being - 023 - August

Nat's Current Prompts

Mere Being 022 - June - Procrastination, Wallpaper Music, Popsicles

Mere Being 021 - April - dinner parties, charoset, dying in holes

Mere Being 020 - March - human nature, lady doctors, potatoes

Mere Being 019 - February - Plenty Huge Men Roam the Earth

Mere Being 018 - December

Mere Being 017 - September - Dirt Man

Mere Being 016 - August - Iron Supplements, Digestion, Love

Pivots don't start enough businesses

How team assignment worked at Pivotal (at least on Cloud Foundry)

Testing Transactions in Elixir

Man, I miss pairing

Mere Being 015 - July - urban grocery stores, document editors, the Weird Dude election