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Every abstraction you build sits somewhere on a spectrum between constraint and flexibility. The failure mode isn't choosing the wrong point — it's not realizing there's a choice being made at all.

Yosemite has been covered innumerable times. What keeps drawing me back, across seasons and decades, is harder to explain than the scenery.

There's a particular satisfaction in holding something you've made. I've been thinking about why that is.

Sometime in 2008, my wife brought a Sierra Club illustrator opportunity to my attention. What came out of it taught me something about why I finish so little of my own work.