We all make mistakes and can’t be everything to everybody, no matter how hard we try. This being said, as I get older, I’ve seen in real time the necessity of showing up for people. Big ways or small ways. Some people have this ability built in, and fundamentally know what to do when someone needs help. Others have to get a bit of shit thrown at them as life moves forward in order to snap outside of themselves.

I’m really not talking about anything specific right now. This is just something I’ve been thinking about for the last little while. Or maybe I am thinking of something specific? How you can let people down unintentionally, that you can really try your hardest, and yet still things don’t work out in the right way. But what is the right way? Isn’t whatever happened the thing that was supposed to happen?

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I send out a newsletter every month with information about what I’m up to. It’s fun and short and I’d like to try and interest more people to join. For the next few months, I’m going to post what I wrote in the newsletter the week after it’s sent out. You can have a look and see if this is something you might want to appear in your inbox every month. Scroll to the bottom to sign up.

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Last week I started working at a new place. I think it’s going well so far. I don’t really want to talk too much about specifics because I hope that it continues to go well. Knocks on wood. Let’s just say it’s a role that is pretty much tailor-made for me. It involves production and words and putting together images like they are pieces of a puzzle.

My resume is full of weird professional experiences. There is no real linear trajectory, it sort of zigzags over time in accordance with my curiosity at any given moment. This has been a privilege to follow this curiosity and I feel lucky and appreciative of the opportunities afforded me.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the thin line between us and chaos. Most of these experiences involved technology in one form or another. Also, most of these involved public spaces and people’s interactions with them.

The first was the customs kiosks at the airport. At three in the morning, they opened the doors to customs and we had to first input our information to these machines. All at one time, the screens of about fifty machines all flickered off and stopped working. I watched as a large group of people all of a sudden had minds that went completely blank. What do we do in the face of technology that decides it no longer wants to work? Or at least, work in the way we expect it to?

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