# Pioneering Spirit

> a willingness to endure hardship in order to explore new places or try out new things 

## Recent Posts

- [The Word “Work” Weasels Into Way Too Many Concepts ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/the-word-work-weasels-into-way-too-many-concepts): And carries too much baggage. A meditation composed with effortless assistance from my new artificial amanuensis.
- [California: Between Hype and Hysteria](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/california-between-hype-and-hysteria)
- [Rekindling California's capacity to dream ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/rekindling-californias-capacity-to-dream): Hand crafted artisanal musings
- [California's opportunity to lead the world through a successful first terraforming](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/californias-opportunity-to-lead-the-world-through-a-successful-first-terraforming)
- [Be Like Water: Field Notes from the Trenches of Regional Climate Adaptation](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/be-like-water-field-notes-from-the-trenches-of-regional-climate-adaptation): Written in collaboration with a (new!) cognitive prothesis
- [The garden of forking permitting paths ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/the-garden-of-forking-permitting-paths): Written by the Patchwork protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
- [What we build before everything breaks apart](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/what-we-build-before-everything-breaks-apart)
- [Teddy Roosevelt reviews Ezra's and Derek's Abundance book and broader movement](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/teddy-roosevelt-reviews-ezras-and-dereks-abundance-book-and-broader-movement)
- [A curiously inconspicuous conversation coming out of Edge ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/a-curiously-inconspicuous-conversation-coming-out-of-edge): A new collaboration along with a glimpse at a new world within the old 
- [Designed in California 2030](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/designed-in-california-2030): Written in collaboration with gen AI
- [The Grand Canyon Perspective: Seeing Civilization in Deep Time](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/the-grand-canyon-perspective-seeing-civilization-in-deep-time): Written in collaboration with the Patchwork Protocol
- [The Future of California](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/the-future-of-california): Written by yours truly tapping on a keyboard and linking to a previous collaboratively authored set of principles from a few years back
- [A Belated Ode to Calbuzz and the Early Blogosphere](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/a-belated-ode-to-calbuzz-and-the-early-blogosphere): Written by the Patchwork Protocol (ish) on behalf of Patrick Atwater 
- [Applied research questions on the past, present and near future of government operations](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/applied-research-questions-on-the-past-present-and-near-future-of-government-operations): by Patrick Atwater
- [Review: My Neighbor Totoro or rediscovering the world through the eyes of a child ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/review-my-neighbor-totoro-or-rediscovering-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-child): Written by the patchwork protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater 
- [Field notes from the not too distant future of government operations ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/field-notes-from-the-not-too-distant-future-of-government-operations): Written by the Patchwork Protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
- [Listening Before We Speak](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/listening-before-we-speak): Written by the Patchwork Protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
- [How might California pioneer a path to a post carbon future the rest of the world actually wants to copy?](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/how-might-california-pioneer-a-path-to-a-post-carbon-future-the-rest-of-the-world-actually-wants): Written by the Patchwork Protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
- [We didn't start the fire but wait who's actually going to fight the fire before it consumes everything everywhere all at once? ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/we-didnt-start-the-fire-but-wait-whos-actually-going-to-fight-it): Hand crafted, local, and organic words written by a human (mostly without AI assistance though a bit of randomly generated phrases like the psuedo lyrics at the start of this post)
- [Deep in the dirt beneath the digital v0.1b-01](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/deep-in-the-dirt-beneath-the-digital-v01b-01): Written by Patrick Atwater going tap tap tap (mostly)

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