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I didn’t travel nearly as much this year as I did last year (and still far behind some other lucky people), but many experiences were had. The list below consists of the cities in which I spent at least one night during the year 2008.

Santa Clarita, CA
Walnut Creek, CA
Emeryville, CA
Austin, TX
Fallon, NV
Wilton, CA

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

—Thomas Jefferson
I am a libertarian for two simple reasons with [...]

I can think of several things worse than turning 25. Among them:

Being gored by a bull in Pamplona
Losing millions in the stock market and selling
Slipping and shattering your bones on an expensive marble floor
Having hot coffee thrown in your face by a crazy person
Getting run over by a garbage truck
Falling off a rock climbing wall [...]

The East Bay is the area on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. The general feeling of the East Bay is very mixed, but overall relaxed. A lot of the bustle of San Francisco is lost across the bridge and there is some stale hippie culture lingering in Berkeley that probably makes its [...]

I have a great deal of respect for the people who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of solutions that help everyone in the world. Notably, Karen Armstrong delivered a speech (found via Chris) at the TED conference this year discussing the current problems with religion in the world. I have tremendous respect for her [...]

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
An effective leader is not an autocrat. The best leaders who build the most support and achieve the most lasting success [...]

Your screeching smoke detector wakes you up and you smell smoke. Adrenaline is pumped throughout your system and you’re on your feet at the doorway, staring at a hazy room with flames in the background. What are you doing to make this situation better?
You’re at a family gathering during the holidays. Everyone is having a [...]

Following Ted following Kottke following Hanna, here is the list of cities in which I spent at least one night in 2007:

San Diego, CA
Richardson, TX
Vancouver, BC
Malibu, CA
Santa Clarita, CA
Fallon, NV
Carpinteria, CA
Sunnyvale, CA
Mountain View, CA
Big Sur, CA
Woodland Hills, CA
Kennedy Meadows, CA
San Francisco, CA
Berkeley, CA
Walnut Creek, CA
Beaver Creek, CO

So I’m leaving San Diego and Eventful to join a startup in Berkeley and work on Project Agape. Instead of trying to regurgitate my own elevator pitch on what they do, I’ll let them say it (get your buzzword bingo card out):
The goal of all this is what we call “equal opportunity activism.” We’re trying [...]

We Americans have been taught that safety and security should be the highest goals of our lives. You should strive to work a “safe job” with “good benefits” so you can raise your children in the same fashion, perpetuating the cycle of excruciating mundanity until the guys you pay for your security cause the nuclear [...]