Tech activist learning web development.

When things seem impossible it's time to go find some water and sit by it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing has profoundly changed my life--I heard about it in high school and took off after graduation to spend two months couchsurfing around Europe, meeting all sorts of people. In college I ended up living in an awesome international house with classmates I met through cs.

Interests

Computers, community, music, guitar, drawing, poetry, politics, sociology of science, reading, hiking, oceans, bonfires, languages.

And travel, of course.

• poetry
• dining
• politics
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• languages
• science
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Right now into reading history and technical books. On the fiction and poetry side of things, The Circle by Dave Eggers, The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk. Nabokov, Huxley, Rilke, Whitman, Pynchon, Ursula Le Guin, Philip K. Dick.

Music: Right now into Phillip Glass, Biosphere, Grimes, Calle 13, Talib Kweli, Ali Farka Toure, Tinariwen, Josquin Desprez, and music inspired by Sufism.

Movies: Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka, Inside Job, documentaries in general

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jumping from waterfalls is pretty amazing

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food! Music! Conversation!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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