West Coast Skies

We start with garage-life banter and accidentally wander into Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Leopold, and why certain landscapes make us feel more alive. We end with a surprisingly practical story about building a tiny contract R&D company that helps pay for med school and sets the stage for early self-driving tech. • half-story houses, attics, and the strange logic of real estate listings • Taliesin and building on the brow of a hill • Aldo Leopold, land stewardship, and the Wisconsin savanna idea • whether conversations can be graphed and why Poisson shows up • Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini and refusing unpaid beta testing • garages as storage for deferred projects and “suspended dreams” • Seattle versus San Francisco light, color, and messiness • Sea Ranch, seasonal mood shifts, and the relief of sun • why meadows feel like home and forests feel like introspection • “make it real” as a rule for poetry, storytelling, and improv • BlueSky as a place to release thoughts without dumping them on family • Triple Vision, contract R&D, and early freeway car detection systems • med school logistics, pickups at HCMC, and the calm of being late together Send us Fan MailSupport the show