“Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.”
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@sarahp.bsky.social covers #ATmosphereConf in @techcrunch.com showing how this is COMMUNITY work, and how we want to make a difference.
Post conference rooftop drinks in Seattle 🥃
(Check out the Space Needle, and that amazing hot chocolate)
Well, everything is in the new house (still a giant mess) but the internet is working and we have clean sheets, so I guess we can call that a successful day of moving. 12 times in the last 5 years. 😮💨 But this time to our very own (and first!) home. (Love my new home office btw! 😻)
🍕 and ☕
Breakfast of champions 🏆
Started listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 📚 Needed something light for moving house tasks, and this was recommended by a DnD buddy.
Safely hauled our last possessions from Kelowna over the snowy Coquihalla pass to Surrey. We had them stored in my brother’s basement since 2022, when we suddenly moved to Kyoto to take care of my father-in-law. Now it’s all safely in the new house. By end of next week we will be fully moved in.
Currently reading: History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric 📚
I first heard Roman on Everyday Anarchism talking about Colin Ward and then again on Upstream. I look forward to listening to it as I pack up and haul our last stuff from Kelowna to the new house in Surrey.
Rainy day… back at the airport. This time to Kelowna for the weekend. Picking up the last of our stuff left there in 2022 and hauling it to the coast to move in to the new house next week.
Suddenly Tokyo
Friday, March 7, 2025
It had been years since I had been to Shinjuku, at least, around the JR Station. It was a lot dirtier than I remember, but more than 25 years had past. It was a whirlwind trip this time to Japan, all for an important meeting for a client that asked me to come and help out. Except for taking my client to Ginza by taxi for some shopping, I stayed put in Shinjuku.
Really should have brought my toque to #snokyo
Good day of walking around Shinjuku #Tokyo #Japan
Case in point wrt my last post: walk between the Yodobashi Camera buildings in Nishi-Shinjuku and you’ll see scads of people standing still, sitting on hand rails or on the benches provided by the store, all silent tapping on their phones—sometimes 2 phones! This is the Pokémon Go Square. Wild!
When I first came to Japan, at age 18 with a backpack and a guitar, I came to Tokyo at the end of February in 1997. That is almost 30 years ago! I am sitting in this little park drinking a canned coffee just watching the people like I did back then. And yet so so much has changed.
Lovely 20° day in Tokyo
Sure picked the wrong day to have a quiet walk around the neighborhood: it’s Tokyo Marathon Day! Already seen some mad costumes and all the streets are being blocked off.
Made it to my hotel in Tokyo. What up Famichikis! Been a few months! Gonna hit the konbini and then crawl into bed. Wiped… Cannot believe how many people were lined up at immigration.
Sent my monthly newsletter early since I am about to get on a plane to Japan. See you next month!
Started Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚
A little audiobook for the plane ride
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 →
Birthday hangsang! 🎈🎂
This aside from Ben Evans recent newsletter:
(A very successful Silicon Valley VC once told me never to invest in a company called ‘labs’ because “they don’t know what they want to build”.)
This is me chuckling in has two shutdown labs in my work history. 😅