2026-01-20

A slow start to the year. That is, nothing about it is slow - just me. I imagine Sisyphus takes his time returning to the bottom of the hill. The boulder, however, wastes no time.

Moving to Nashville

So much happened on this most recent trip up the hill. Okay, technically the actual move (from Boston to Nashville, where I grew up) happened late 2024. At the start of 2025 we moved into our home on the East side. It's hard to remember the last few years in Boston, partially from the lack of sleep, but also because of a stillness.

Moving was an incredible decision. We see family almost daily. Our neighborhood is, against all Nashville odds, completely walkable and full of wonderful neighbors. Everything is... awesome.

Highlights

• Getting one of those sick long-tail bikes that Meadow and I ride everywhere
• Meadow's soccer season
• Moving into our house
• Running into my brother most mornings
• Multiple visits from Quin & Nina and Henry & Walta; and visiting Henry in Philly for a Pinback show (and then him coming here for a ylt/Built to Spill show)
• My dad and brothers' live performances
• Our road trip
• Extremely long walks with Dax

Books

2025 was a good year for {Reading}. I started with Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World and ended with Ursula K. Le Guin's City of Illusions. In between, the highlights were Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, James Gleick's Chaos, scattered Borges, and Richard Adam's Watership Down.

I recommend Bo Hansson's Music Inspired by Watership Down. Besides that I've been listening almost exclusively to "kid stuff." Lucky for me, Meadow is really into Joe Hisaishi.

Projects

• Upstream Tech had an excellent year of growth and R&D progress.
• dynamical.org is cruising - the catalog continues to grow and we are satisfying many millions of requests per week, somehow on a completely self-funded budget and in our spare time...
• scorecard helps better quantify forecast accuracy relative to actual in situ station data.
• I launched weathering a podcast about weather and technology.

Some work stuff