# Pioneering Spirit

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

## Recent Posts

- [Tending the Garden](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/tending-the-garden): On tomatoes, toddlers and touching time 
- [Everything is Translation](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/everything-is-translation): On IO structures, shibboleths, and what symbolic systems can't carry
- [What Happens When Pirates Swap Sails for the Statehouse?](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/what-happens-when-pirates-turn-legit)
- [Off the Edge, Part Two](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/off-the-edge-part-two): Notes from a Conversation with Helena Hythloday
- [Of Monsters and Men](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/of-monsters-and-men)
- [Envisioning a California-wide high school exchange program](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/envisioning-a-california-wide-high-school-exchange-program-1): Artisanal, hand crafted words from the archives
- [Outcomes on tap](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/outcomes-on-tap): Towards the routine measurement of public impact
- [5 means many ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/5-means-many): Notes on understanding an emergent alien intelligence
- [Emperor Norton never ate at the French laundry ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/emperor-norton-never-ate-at-the-french-laundry): 42 Decrees on behalf of California’s beloved Monarch
- [Walking the World Machines](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/walking-the-world-machines): Playing with internet acquaintances on what is going on in our weird little world
- [The Spy and the Civil Servant](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/the-spy-and-the-civil-servant): On double lives, institutional honesty, and what it would take to let reformers speak plainly
- [Exploring the protocol stack of my hometown ](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/a-walking-map)
- [Maybe in my backyard: MIMBY](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/maybe-in-my-backyard-mimby): A call to focus on fixing California's underlying broken planning processes
- [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)

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