Morning sun showers in the Santa Cruz mountains 😍

Respect.

Stay soft. trailhead.ultrasignup.com/travel-lifes...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4mL... Thrilled to be featured on the Voices of Search podcast, where I spoke with Jordan about SEO, generative search, and winning AI Overviews in the health space. This was my first time on a podcast and I really enjoyed the experience.

Big Sur: Soberanes Canyon and Rocky Ridge trails (Garrapata State Park) while processing and healing ❤️‍🩹 with musical accompaniment by The Disco Biscuits.

Toss that Ring in the trash.

Ken Marino leading his band through “Ophelia” sounds way better than it has any business being. David Wain is a beast on drums. This was a delightful evening of nostalgic jams and hilarious stories at Great American in SF last night.

Backpacking the Ohlone Wilderness Trail has always been high on my bucket list. Yesterday we ran it instead. Couldn’t have asked for better weather, and it’s so beautifully green out there right now. So much climbing, but we had a lot of fun. Roughly 30 miles and 8k vert 🫠

Metal recommendations crack me up. "I felt physically bad after listening to [this album] for the first time" "Yeah. It’s like being in hell." SAY NO MORE FAM

Here’s @trey.com on The Small Bow podcast talking real-world application of emotional sobriety. Simple but powerful. I think about this a lot. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Poison oak on my eye is just one of the many perks that come with the trail running lifestyle. A small gift from the redwoods.

Just signed up for my first 50 mile race. This feels both completely insane and like a logical progression of my running journey. LFG.

So sad about Bob Weir's passing. I found the Dead in my 20s, but their music continues to reveal itself to me, resonating in new ways as I get older. Phil & Friends at Langerado '08 hooked me, but Bobby was always my favorite. Here's video from Bob & Wolf Bros @ Greek Berkeley '21, a great show.

Stoked to hear about ChatGPT Health. Does this mean they'll start to focus on providing accurate information? As of this morning, ChatGPT tells me that the Wegovy pill is not real, so I'm not holding my breath...

Santa Cruz is pure magic after the rain. Here are some shots from The Forest of Nisene Marks in Aptos earlier this week.

The future is here. Update your calendars.

Look, you can’t own a Cybertruck and be “Anti Elon”. Elon IS the Cybertruck. It’s gotta be one or the other. If you’re gonna drive this thing around, just own it.

If you have money sitting in an FSA, Truemed.com is a game changer. They streamline the LMN (letter of medical necessity) process which opens up a lot of FSA-eligible items that you'd need a doctors note for otherwise. Gym/running equipment, supplements, sauna/red light therapy gear, etc.

At one point around the turn of the century, about.com was one of the most-visited sites on the web. Today it redirects to a 404 page.

Tech woes: I share a name (and thus a close email address) with my dad. Increasingly, I receive his order/reservation confirmations, presumably he's entering the wrong email. He may need the info in some of these, so I find myself acting as personal secretary, summarizing & forwarding emails...

Connecting with your teen over music is such a cool experience. Holiday shopping is so fun when they’re into the same stuff you grew up on, open to your recommendations, and prefer physical media to streaming.

This is pretty bad. I see it as a nice reminder to remain vigilant when using generative search tools.

For better or worse, birthday miles has become a yearly tradition. The time passes a bit quicker when running some of those trail miles with friends. This was an epic (~42 mile!) trek from the top of the Santa Cruz mountains (near Saratoga) down to the coast in Wilder Ranch 🫠

Weaponizing/demonizing addiction doesn't help anyone.

I’ve only heard little bits of recent Disco Biscuits shows (giving them some time to figure things out with the new lineup) but I loved this little segment: Magner playing around with “I Melt With You” by Modern English during a “Cyclone” jam.

Powerful stuff. A great listen for anyone touched by addiction.

Yet another friendly reminder that generative search/AI Overviews regularly hallucinate and are not to be trusted. Guitarist Kenny Hickey is very much alive.

Jay Lane (Dead & Co., Primus), Michael Travis (String Cheese Incident) and David Phipps (STS9) at Moes Alley in Santa Cruz last night.

Interesting... Movie title + runtime queries seem to consistently break AI Overviews on mobile. AIO isn't triggered on desktop for the handful of queries I attempted.

Yesterday we talked a little bit about SNAP ending and how everyone who can, should give back to their communities. I'm going to spend a little time today talking about what to give.

On 11/1, ~42 million Americans will lose federal SNAP benefits. For those paycheck-to-paycheck, already on the brink of food insecurity, this is terrifying. Consider a monthly donation to a food bank like Second Harvest (www.shfb.org), they know what is needed & can spend efficiently buying in bulk.

Loved the light show for Minami Deutsch at the Santa Cruz Vets Hall last night.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

We're deep in the best musical season. I've been adding to this Fall playlist since 2013, a collection of gloomy/spooky songs to get you in the Halloween spirit, and I'm stoked with how it turned out 🎃 🎶 Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🎶 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6OL...

I feel a *tiny* pang of guilt when marking democratic political campaign txts as spam. Like, yes, they're 100% spam, like dozens of other unsolicited texts/calls I get each day, but I don't want to hinder the PAC's ability to hassle other libs who need daily reminders of their guilt & powerlessness.

I've had a handful of epic trailrunning adventures recently, as the lines between fall and winter blur. Here's some shots from the eastern sierras, where firey aspens and an epic supermoon kept my camera working overtime.

I haven’t paid attention to AFI in a long time, but their latest (“Silver Bleeds the Black Sun”) sounds more like The Cure & Sisters of Mercy than the AFI I grew up on (no longer “goth punk”, this is straight goth) and I love it. Perfect Fall / Halloween listening. music.apple.com/us/album/beh...

I only took one photo at Autechre last night before they shut off all of the lights. The next 80 minutes were intense, beautiful, disorienting, at times formless, heavily percussive, challenging, and I loved every minute of it. Incredibly unique and memorable experience that I won’t soon forget.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Supermoon in the eastern sierras 🌕

Tis the season 🎃 🦇

Air playing “Sexy Boy” as the silhouette of an unfortunately-positioned security staffer not-so-subtlety digs for gold is… some type of vibe. Cal Coast Credit something or other amphitheater in San Diego last night. Incredible show, amazing stage production.

#BrightonSEO run club and a San Diego sunrise

Good morning San Diego! Got some early miles in before #BrightonSEO kicks off. I may be one of five people using that hashtag, but I’m gonna lean into it. Feels like Twitter circa 2008.

My long journey to #BrightonSEO San Diego begins with a 5am bike ride to catch a sunrise ferry from Lopez Island

Just spent the last week riding the San Juan Islands in Washington: Orcas, San Juan, Lopez, and Anacortes with an A+ crew of new friends from all over the country. Beautiful scenery and incredible weather all week.

Epic trail run along the PCT (Kendall Katwalk) in Washington this morning. Beautiful wildflowers, old growth forest and delicious blackberries all along the trail.

I'm headed to New Orleans to see family in Nov. I've been to NOLA several times, but always for Jazzfest, bachelor parties, etc. Proximity to bars/etc isn't a priority, but I'd love to get some good runs in. Any recs of neighborhoods to stay in? Let's see if crowdsourced travel tips work on here.

Them Santa Monica Mountains looking mighty fine this morning.

@numetalmoment.bsky.social I was not expecting this (Alien Earth, episode 2)