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12/11/2025

Essay update: going analog.

12/11/2025

PAGE 1: Against Usefulness

50-day reading series. page 1: what six years teaching high school taught me about usefulness and whose terms we're actually serving. spoiler: it's not the students. full essay free in bio đź”—



11/17/2025

trump's tariffs are raising prices for everyday americans and his economy is clearly failing. he knows it. the american people know it. despite democrats fumbling the shutdown this week, the economic pressure strategy is still working—trump is already backpedaling on tariffs because his policies are hurting people's pocketbooks.

the best way to fight back right now: stop spending with big corporations that enable trump. keep your money local or in your pocket. join the general strike at generalstrikeus.com. boycott corporations that funded his inauguration. this holiday season, resist with your wallet.

we maintain this pressure, we win. eyes on the prize.

11/11/2025

Eight Democrats just defected to end the shutdown. No plan for democracy. No structures to catch us when systems fail.

So we build them ourselves.

I'm close to printing 1,000 copies of Going Analog—my essay on economic refusal and building democratic infrastructure. Libraries as organizing hubs. Mutual aid networks. Data trusts. Democracy practiced between elections.

I found GeneralStrikeUs.com organizing a general strike. This is the movement. People are building it everywhere.

Help me reach more people. $700 gets us to 1,000 copies and beyond my local community.

Link in bio. Anything helps. Let's do this.

11/09/2025

Americans, we call ourselves free. But are we though?

Are we free when millions go hungry during government shutdowns? When we're stuck in jobs we hate just for health insurance? When we pay higher premiums so the rich avoid taxes?

Historian Timothy Snyder calls this negative freedom—absence of structure that only serves the wealthy. The America built by and for rich men who still depend on everyone else to take care of them.

Real freedom? Snyder says it's the absence of insecurity. Positive freedom. Freedom TO. The presence of structures like healthcare, education, strong social supports.

Libertarians in the Trump admin want you to believe freedom is just being born with it. No government, no structure. That's a lie. Look at day 40 of the shutdown. Absence of government only serves those with wealth and power.

We need positive freedom. The structures that help us reach our full potential.

Libertarians say the free market will solve everything. Look around though.

63% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Elon Musk is a trillionaire. Corporations rake in billions.

Tell me, who's free in America?

11/07/2025

You don't live in a democracy. You never have.

Madison wrote Federalist 10 to stop poor people from redistributing wealth. His solution? Make you vote, then go home. Contain democracy.

Day 37: Shutdown. Congress empty. System working as designed.

Real democracy happens between elections. Going Analog teaches it.

Link in bio. 100 out. 5,000 by 2026.

11/05/2025

Something's shifting. I can feel it.

Last weekend I went to an organizing training with WAND—Washington Neighborhood Defense. They're teaching people how to canvass neighborhoods, hand out information, distribute whistles. Building actual networks to protect people from ICE raids. Real mutual aid. Real community defense.

I brought copies of Going Analog. Handed them out. It felt great to share and connect. 

You know what Timothy Snyder said? Form coalitions. Do something every day. This is what that looks like.

So here's what I'm doing: working with WAND to bring this training to Kitsap County. Learning how to organize on the ground, not just online.

WAND has already reached over 1,000 businesses. That's what sustained action looks like.

Yesterday I went to a screening of the SAL Timothy Snyder lecture at the Poulsbo Library. Met people from Indivisible, from No Kings. Handed out more essays. So much energy in that room. People are ready.

And here's the thing I keep noticing—every single one of these meetings? At a public library.

The WAND training. The Snyder screening. Where I'm meeting organizers. All at libraries.

This is literally what Going Analog argues. Libraries are the infrastructure. The commons. Where we organize without being surveilled.

But I need more people to see this. Read the essay. Donate so I can print 5,000 copies by the midterms. Share this with someone who needs to hear it.

Going Analog isn't anti-technology. It's anti-monopoly.

Amazon just fired 14,000 people while posting $21 BILLION in profit.

Let's have a No Amazon Christmas 2025. Let's show them we're done.

The momentum is real. Join us.

11/04/2025

Day 33 of the shutdown. Federal workers can't feed their families. Amazon just posted $21 BILLION in profit and fired 14,000 people.

One year until the 2026 midterms. If you're not uncomfortable right now, you're not paying attention.

Here's what I know:

Democrats won't save us

Protests aren't enough without sustained action

The Magnificent 7 (Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Nvidia) control 35% of the S&P 500

They enable Trump. They're automating poverty.

Going Analog = No Kings economics

Strategic boycotts. Public libraries. Local networks. New alternatives.

Start today: Cancel Amazon Prime.

Let's ruin their Q4. No Amazon Christmas 2025.

Going Analog essay in bio. Currently raising funds to print 5,000 copies by the midterms. Join the movement.

The plan exists. Now we build it.

10/30/2025

Day 29 of the shutdown. Congress is empty. Amazon is replacing 14,000 workers with AI. Trump calls Congress the "Duma."

American democracy as we knew it is over.

Time for a new strategy: Going Analog. Economic refusal of the seven companies enabling authoritarianism.

I've handed out 100 copies in 1 week. Goal: 5,000 by 2026 midterms.

GoFundMe + essay link in bio. Join the movement.

recording our voiceover like the highly trained professionals we are (read: 37 takes and too many distractions to count)...
08/05/2025

recording our voiceover like the highly trained professionals we are (read: 37 takes and too many distractions to count). new season drops august 15.

Boomers get blamed for a lot.But as Robert Reich reminds us, this generation also helped lead movements for civil rights...
07/30/2025

Boomers get blamed for a lot.

But as Robert Reich reminds us, this generation also helped lead movements for civil rights, feminism, gay rights, and environmental justice.

So instead of writing them off, what if we asked them to pass the baton?

At Kinship Tales, we help capture the voices and stories of older adults—especially Boomers—so their wisdom, humor, and grit aren’t lost.

Because this generation still has something to say. And we still have a lot to learn.

🎙 If there’s someone in your life whose story deserves to be heard, we’d love to help.

I’ve been thinking about these two photos a lot lately.The first is me as a toddler, wrapped up in my mom’s arms. The se...
07/28/2025

I’ve been thinking about these two photos a lot lately.

The first is me as a toddler, wrapped up in my mom’s arms. The second is from a trip a couple of weeks ago with my wife Kelly—my mom still full of light, still laughing beside me.

She’s always been that way: a joyful, stubborn, endlessly supportive hippie who believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself.

She stood by me through the best versions of my life and the hardest. She gave me room to figure things out, but never let me forget I was loved.

And the truth is, these pictures only tell part of that story.

The rest lives in her voice—in the way she tells stories about camping in Big Sur in the 70s, or raising me on her own until I was 5, or the friendships that saved her during tough years. The little details. The laughter. The pauses. The parts that don’t make it into a photo album.

That’s why I started Kinship Tales.

After talking with so many Boomers, I kept hearing the same thing in different words:
“I just want to be remembered for who I really am.”

So we help people preserve the voices of the ones they love—through short, beautiful audio stories that capture a life in their own words.

If you’ve got someone like my mom in your life—a person whose story deserves to be heard—you don’t have to wait.

This is one way to celebrate them now.

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