Archive - cybermonk

Some things that have happened

In May, I moved to San Francisco.

Jul 19 •

The stars assemble in the great stadium to watch those games whose rules are known only to time. Children scrabble in a field of bloodied dirt…

Jul 9 •

Today I scrolled through my twitter archive.

Jul 4 •

June 2024

I ran this morning. These runs in the hills have been a staple of my life for more than a decade—different hills, different friends, but the same…

Jun 29 •

April 2024

9 degrees North latitude

The natural process of evolution forms increasingly stable collectives through progressive subjugation of the individual. The moral order scouts ahead…

Apr 27 •

March 2024

Welcome to hell

If you behave just right people will like you. If you behave just right, like we do, people will give you what you need. If you put effort into the…

Mar 25 •

February 2024

Stuff I've learned

Some things I would tell my younger self:

Feb 13 •

December 2023

The door swings shut and I plunge into the darkness. I lose the raucous conversations in a December wind that lends purpose to my stride. The slivered…

Dec 5, 2023 •

November 2023

High above the Baltoro glacier, the wind whistles over corniced ridges and between teetering seracs. It whips spindrift off the snow and the icy fog…

Nov 17, 2023 •

The last few months flew by. I finally bought a car. I set a new personal record running my favorite trail; my previous best time was five years ago…

Nov 2, 2023 •

July 2023

Mind and mountain

I attempted Mt. Shasta yesterday. It was my first time doing real mountaineering: leaving camp at 2 am, ice axing up a 50-degree snowfield, navigating…

Jul 17, 2023 •

Notes on freedom

There is a remarkably uniform description of the type of life that a young, intelligent person is supposed to live.

Jul 8, 2023 •

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