Recent

• visual thing-counter app prototype
• redesigned taylor.town
• designed a computer-assisted daily-routine
• Dream Daddy
• eliminated mindless browsing with parental controls
• composting
• became a parent
• chose a year theme
• quit drinking
• attended Strange Loop

Current

• parenting
• preparing home for winter
• home-improvement and landscaping
• spring-cleaning
• switching from emacs to neovim
• passive life-logging
• indoor gardening
• last will & testament
• working on a secret app idea
• organizing a tech conference
• launching a VR “experience”
• working at Osmind
• consulting
• writing for taylor.town and e-mail newsletter

Soon

• attending When We Were Young
• becoming a “DJ”
• submitting tech talks
• improving conversational skills
• shrink/focus/clean-up taylor.town
• digital storage cleanup
• online personal info changes
• updating my passport
• secret podcast idea
• simplifying my diet
• quitting caffeine (again)
• woodworking & toymaking & sewing dolls
• exercising bodily discomfort
• Mrichard the Meerkat
• writing How to Pilot a Meat-Machine

Selected Writings

Musings and Self-Reflection

• Time
• What isn’t David
• How to Become the Worst Version of Yourself
• 1,000 Weekends Without a Drink
• Choose Values over Self-Discipline
• Always Waiting
• Becoming
• Don’t Feel Your Feelings
• Nobody Actually Sneezes
• Suspended Disbelief
• Nothing
• Plunge
• Bucket List
• Taylor Sarrafian
• “I’m lonely 😎”
• No Fights
• Do It for the Music
• Parental-Self-Controls

Ideas and Opinions

• never wait for the check at restaurants
• On Improving Education
• Why Is Every Song Out-of-Tune?
• Being Unreasonable
• Self-Control is an Anti-Virtue
• Set Phasers to Blind
• Synthetic Intelligence
• The Problem with Podcasts
• The Speedy Media Manifesto
• An Algorithm for Generating Ideas

Software

• Using {Blocks} in Rust & Go for Fun & Profit
• Why JavaScript’s Secret Comma Operator is So Darn Useful
• JSON Considered Harmful
• Structure-State-Value Architecture for OOP
• A One-Size-Fits-Most Software Architecture

Poetry, Stories, and Humor

• Blood & Brain | Heart & Helix
• How Do Taoists Quit Smoking?
• Plausible Deniability
• Finding an Infintesimal Worm in Your Apple
• Schrödinger’s Possum
• Darth Vader vs. Ronald McDonald vs. Ketamine-Powered Civic vs. The Infidels vs. R2-D2 vs. Darth Vader

Projects

• Dream Daddy
• nowify
• taylor.town
• LiveCount
• LIT Home