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Michael Dean
Queens, New York
Founder of Essay Architecture & Essay Club. Previously an architect and VR specialist, but started writing online during the pandemic (July 2020) through Write of Passage. Newly-minted father. Etc. (will rewrite this later)
Matthew Argyle
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
A 40 year old guy living in the suburbs with a reasonably well-behaved daughter, a supportive spouse, and a dog I tolerate for the families sake. I'm a curious person who is "ok" at a lot of things and master of none. I spent time in the U.S. Army where I was once described as "the easiest guy to be around." That probably says less about my innate agreeableness and more about an ingrained habit of meeting expectations. Despite a deathly allergy to high-control systems like the US Army, Corporate America, and Mormonism, I've been a zealot for all of them. Writing is part of my quest to learn, unlearn, and to understand.
Yehudis Milchtein
Brussels, Belgium
Notes on noticing life's moments.
Alicia McKay
Wellington, New Zealand
Writer, speaker, and strategist in Aotearoa New Zealand. I write about power, strategy, and change. I am also writing a novel. I have 3x kids and am 3x tired.
Christopher Coffman
Williams Township, Pennsyvlania
Chris Coffman has written on many subjects for decades. His second novel A Prince Among Men was published in 2022. In addition to his novels, short stories and articles Chris worked for decades in Europe, the UK, the United States, Latin America, Asia and Australia as an expatriate American investment banker and investor before founding a highly-awarded wine company in Australia. A Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude graduate of the University of Southern California, he attended Columbia University before beginning his financial career at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, now merged into J.P. Morgan.
Lance Mason
Clarke Scott
Australia
Clarke Scott is an Australian writer, thinker (and former Buddhist monk) whose work explores the nature of self, consciousness, truth, meaning, and lived experience.
Adam Siegel
New York and Seattle (about 50/50)
Serial entrepreneur based in Seattle and New York (though I'm considering a move to Europe). I currently run Kitten Labs, a generative AI venture studio which is about neither kittens nor labs, so you can already see how well things are going. Previously, I spent a decade in the moonshot divisions of Amazon and Google X. My writing focuses on the non-obvious nuggets I've collected over the years about startup life, technology, personal economics, and politics (hence the obvious title "Non-Obvious Nuggets"). For fun, I enjoy writing, skiing, playing guitar badly, and training for The Amazing Race, which I will never actually be on. I love meeting new people and especially fellow writers, so please feel free to reach out!
Claire Butler
David Glass
San Francisco, CA
Have you seen the movie 3 Idiots? When I saw it in college I was glowing for 3 weeks after. It was the first time I felt my own playful curiosity role modeled that strongly and it changed me. Things I love: learning, sharing what I learn, nature, books, movies, meditation, the gym, board games I'm excited to find community in this group and to pour love into my writing. I grew up in Atlanta, Ga, USA and now live in San Francisco. I've been building an edTech startup for the past 3 years. Now in the acquisition process and embracing divergency and serendipity as I enter a new era.
Alessio Wagner
Jillian Cardillo
Ruben Cadonau
Bern, Switzerland
I am a trained electrician, a post-evangelical theologian, a prospective pastor, and a passionate amateur writer.
Mia Aiyana Cardenas
Elizabeth Edwards
New York
Architectural Designer / Artist / Writer --> Sharing stories about my favorite places and how I teach myself to paint.
Michael Fichter
Paul Christy
Medford OR
Native of Buffalo NY with a DC career as an economist, senior executive, and frequent traveler with the US government. Retired and living now in my wife's hometown of Medford Oregon. At first I couldn't slow down and I started teaching at the local university's lifelong learning branch, then became acting director of the local Shakespeare theatre, got hired to run a set of historic theatres, joined Rotary and a number of nonprofit Boards ... and then hit pause this year after reading "The Art of the Essayist," by Arthur Benson. I hope to learn to write "something 'jolly,' as the school-boy says, something smelt, heard, seen, perceived, invented, thought;" and this group appeals to me as a way to get that done.
Stephen Morrison
Sakib Ahmed
San Francisco, CA by way of Queens, NY
Tinkerer. https://www.sakibsahmed.com/
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Penny Shi
Charlie Becker
Matthew Beebe
Catherine Werner
Julian Alvarez
Christian Britton
Rosemary DeSena
John Min
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