Recent

• visual thing-counter app prototype
• moved to Southern California
• redesigned taylor.town
• worked at Pex
• designed a computer-assisted daily-routine
• Björk concert
• silent meditation retreat
• home-improvement
• Dream Daddy
• eliminated mindless browsing with parental controls
• composting
• became a parent

Current

• parenting
• planning weekly family hikes
• switching from emacs to neovim
• working at Osmind
• consulting
• writing for taylor.town and e-mail newsletter

Soon

• reorganizing personal configs
• configuring ios focus modes
• spring-cleaning
• purchasing a “uniform”
• scheduling taycations
• writing How to Pilot a Meat-Machine
• secret CSS project
• cute slideshow
• choosing a year theme
• purchasing house plants
• becoming a “DJ”
• digital storage cleanup
• personal metrics
• configuring apple shortcuts
• online personal info changes
• new email address
• last will & testament
• indoor gardening
• health records project
• attending Strange Loop
• attending When We Were Young
• vodcasts project
• management software
• shrink/focus/clean-up taylor.town
• woodworking & toymaking
• dev-streaming on Twitch
• improving nowify
• making videos
• free library
• planning “discomfort” adventures
• landscaping
• bonsai, houseplants, and terrariums
• scrapscript, dirt db, and scrapsheets
• basement renovation
• making recommendations lists
• Board Room Games
• dark christmas music
• Unnamed Open University
• making comfy t-shirts
• starting a local retail store
• deleting internet accounts
• meditation and cold-exposure
• SMS games
• vtubing
• AR game
• fitness boot-camp and weightlifting
• universal file declutterer
• investing
• “Taylor Talk” app
• sobriety test app
• children’s book
• recording album
• learning languages with lingq
• mechanical keyboards
• monthly “odd days”
• visual scoreboard / scoresheet
• spewtube
• discogs vinyl reorganization and purchases
• wipe my computers
• Mrichard the Meerkat
• taylor.town SEO

Selected Writings

Musings and Self-Reflection

• Suspended Disbelief
• Choose Values over Self-Discipline
• Always Waiting
• Becoming
• Don’t Feel Your Feelings
• Nobody Actually Sneezes
• Nothing
• Plunge
• Bucket List
• Slumpy
• Time
• Taylor Sarrafian
• What isn’t David
• “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