I'm Eriks. (It's Latvian and it's pronounced like "eddix." Fun fact: All Latvian male names end in "s" while all female names end in "a".) I currently live in Cambridge and work in Boston for a financial software company that uses bitcoin...

...I'm not a crypto-anarchist by any means, but I do enjoy discussing the challenges of our current economy and what security/privacy actually means in the 21st century.

Things I've done
- Played D1 football
- Studied English and Religion
- Taught HS English in three different states
- Recently travelled to London > Dover > Ghent > Paris > Berlin > Dublin

Things I'm doing
- Memorizing poems by T.S Eliot
- Learning Java
- Looking at land in Western MA
- Enjoying the summer time
- Listening to Sun Ra

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've always been curious about this network and I've never had the opportunity to be apart of it. I'm sort of just jumping in now. So here it goes. (*Holds nose*).

Interests

- Computers
- Poetry
- Open-source software
- Cryptocurrency
- Ralph Steadman, Keith Herring, and Katsushika Hokusai
- Going to meetups
- Yoga
- Running
- Weight lifting
- Coffee
- Cooking breakfast
- Backpacking

• poetry
• cooking
• breakfast
• coffee
• yoga
• running
• backpacking
• soccer
• religion
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Could go on, so I'll list 3 of each.
- Bill Evans
- Air
- David Bowie

- Almost Famous
- Blue Velvet
- Gremlins

- East of Eden
- Dharma Bums
- Watchmen

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Took a train from BOS to LA.

Teach, Learn, Share

A really great temperature to brew coffee is 185 Fahrenheit.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States