I bring people together around shared meals, tools, and experiments—from Portland potlucks and Cascade Camp to lab nights, robotics, and living knowledge bases.
What I keep building
01 / 04Places where people can learn, make, and belong.
I’ve hosted roughly 150 potlucks, co-founded Hedron, and helped make Cascade Camp a recurring physical home for online communities and families. In the garage, I host microfluidics-centered lab nights, am starting a deeper robotics practice, and explore how agents can help people maintain shared knowledge over time. I also invest in infrastructure for community-oriented housing.
Community practice
I start with structures people can return to: a table that gathers regularly, shared tools they can learn on, and events they help create together.
For three years, I’ve hosted recurring potlucks in Portland. Roughly 150 evenings around the same practice gave relationships time to grow and created the social fabric that helped Cascade Camp take shape.
Hedron Hackerspace
From 2013–2016, I co-founded Hedron, a Portland worker-owned cooperative built around shared equipment, fabrication workshops, open-source practice, and member governance. We made manufacturing tools and knowledge more accessible to the people around us. The community continues today as Hedron Hackerspace.
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Elkenmist, Washington
2024 · 2025 · 2026
A temporary physical community · year three
“A clearing in the forest of the internet.”
A participant-produced gathering in the Pacific Northwest, where relationships that begin online have time and space to deepen in person. Campers create the temporary community together, and families and children are part of its design.
Geoship
I invested in Geoship because it is building a platform for housing that can grow while remaining environmentally aligned, human-scale, and centered on community. The investment extends a question I explore through gatherings and shared spaces: what physical infrastructure helps communities live together well?
Explore Geoship ↗Garage lab / shared practice
I host microfluidics-centered lab nights to build alongside other practitioners and work toward real products. I’m starting to treat robotics as a foundational practice. Working close to the material gives me a clearer view of how emerging fields develop, who is building them, and where I might invest.
I produced a microfluidic chip on a shoestring lab budget. I now host lab nights around that practice: a recurring place to work toward products, share techniques, and learn alongside other practitioners.
Vellum and Substrate explore how agents can help people maintain living knowledge bases together. Voice interviews, ambient audio, and other lived material keep their provenance while agents help communities connect and curate what they know over time.
I’m starting to build fluency in robotics as a fundamental practice for working in the physical world. I also study Lisp, Unison, content-addressed code, capabilities, and effects to ask how programming environments should change when AI can produce code faster than people can read it.
Open invitation
The door is open
Say hello if you’re bringing people together, building in the physical world, or creating tools that help communities think and work together.
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