gathering media to use in my defense presentation, please enjoy this 1990 promotional video by Esri: youtu.be/TL_HN1zSQx4?si=K6jHgn

2025 in exercise 

I remembered to go to yoga 288 times this year

ripcorp.biz/episodes/2025-corp the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.

Sent to my office for self reflection after saying I didn't really do much in 2025 and having to be reminded I wrote a dissertation

Ramsey just said that Marty Supreme really sounds like none of his business, that he's crossed a line just knowing about it

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: phantom, stranger, parcels, parents', aortic valve, adjectival, beans, giant rabbit

just remembered this year started with the image of a cyber truck in flames in front of a Trump hotel

Found out today while getting a haircut that at some time in the last few months that a chunk of my hair must have fell out and I just hadn't noticed, cool normal 2025 stuff

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: uncool, crystalline, early, contemptuous, golf, flesh, posthumously, guarded, shrubbery, name, ensemble, cells, eminently, transcend, clown, shrimp, so many ways, landmass

Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks

Fun professional news: I'm one of the two new Editors at Large at urbanomnibus.net, a publication of the Architectural League of New York. please get in touch if you have ideas you'd like to develop into commissions on any broadly-defined NYC architecture and/or urbanism topics!

me: hey man how's it going

scott galloway: women showing feet is a social cancer we can solve by making boys do war

placing.technology/i-submitted blogged a very belated debrief on the dissertation as I mull over what (else) (if anything) I do with the dissertation blog as I approach the finish line

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: raccoon, redwood, gambling, bruised, sweater, mysterious, winter, ripeness, cult, flesh-tone, beaver bombing, laissez-ed, ethics, definitionally, glands, indolent, robot wolves

Between this and the abundance nonsense I low-key believe there's a guys-in-a-room-planned-this project to appropriate lefty rhetoric to serve shitty capitalist ideas through dumb thought leader books

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I read a review of the Stewart Brand maintenance book and I'm pretty sure it's a psyop

dissertation submitting accountability note 

I did it, the full manuscript has been sent to my committee, hope it is deemed defensible!!

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