1. Do not fall in love with people’s potential for you might as well dance with a shadow that may never appear. 2. Live a legend by making your life art. Do ridiculous things just for the sake of the story. They are all that you’ll have at the end. …

When I was 17 I ran away from home after a huge fight with my parents. It was the middle of college application season and I hated it. I hated the pageantry, the constant buzz of high school test taking and grades. …

I’ve been spending a lot more time with myself lately and I gotta say it’s a learning experience. One of the more humbling things in life is to realize that you’ll spend all of it trying to understand yourself and only manage a small portion. …

I don’t normally categorize myself as a nervous person then what inevitably happens is that I’m up past midnight because I can’t sleep the night before an important presentation. Yep. Knock knock. It’s my sleep demons again. They mock me — critiquing my every move, calling me names, in general…

About 7 years ago I attended a hackathon to make a game in a weekend. This was part of the circuit of hackathons I used to go to for the free food when I was funemployed in Richmond during late 2015. …

Tasteful Experimentation at the Edge of Science — Recently I was reading Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain’s masterpiece in memoir-form about his experience in the seedy underbelly that is a kitchen and I had a startling realization… Laboratory work and kitchen work are not altogether too different! In fact, I think laboratory science could borrow quite a bit from…

Every week, my partner and I recap what happened the previous week and talk about how we want to learn and grow. We go through an acronym: GLAD — Gratitude, Learning, Accomplishment, Delighted and list out one of each. This past week I had set her a challenge when she…

The first image you see of the habitat is a golf ball sliced in half, stark white and naked against a windswept barren lava plain. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. A tiny speck on the side of a giant blackened volcano, emerging from the mist. …

what to do with this wild precious life it’s only at the edge of courage that you begin to feel the days when you go dancing when you race and run until breathless heart churning you collapse into dreamless sleep when a ship goes out to water they bring yards of…