A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- New Paltz Zen Center's First Shuso Hossen Ceremony
For the first time at our Zen temple, a member was promoted to Senior Zen Student and gave her first dharma talk.
- Keep the Dharma Wheel Rolling
The symbols, rituals, and language of Buddhism goes back 5000 years or more. We should both maintain and innovate these traditions.
- SIGMOD 2026 Recap
My notes from the database conference in Bangalore.
- Bengaluru
Trip report of a week in India's tech capital.
- Review: Scalable Leader Leases For Multi Consensus Groups in CockroachDB
A difficult paper about a real cloud database's complex and evolving architecture.
- Nepal trek
Two days visiting Kathmandu temples, then four days walking up to Poon Hill and down through the Annapurna foothills.
- Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory
You can go far without writing TLA+ syntax now, but you still need to understand temporal logic.
- The Kid Is Not My Son
My father's dishonesty was frustrating and disappointing to many people, but I think he got the worst of it.
- Climbing Tiers of Fear
Zhihua Gan climbing Tiers of Fear (5.12a) in the Gunks.
- How Zen Monasteries Tell Time
We've been using drums and bells for centuries, though the meaning has changed.