A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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Speak Up If You're Stuck in a Zazen Rut Some topics seem off-limits in Zen: What's the goal of meditation? How do I get better at it? I talk about my doubts and break some silences.
Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 1 A profound 1990 paper about epistemology in distributed systems.
Optimizing a Meditation Retreat with a SAT Solver I used Google's OR-Tools to schedule a Zen retreat.
Aerial Silks in the Gunks Kelsey Roman performing with aerial silks suspended from the Nectar Vector climb on Millbrook, a cliff in the Gunks.
RIP Sojourner In memory of Sojourner Truth Armstrong Davis, a singular and solitary hamster.
From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without a PhD How I wound up on MongoDB's research team.
Taming Google Scholar Alerts Instead of a daily deluge, get a weekly summary.
Gunks, June 2025 Climbing in the Gunks on June 21 and 22, 2025.
Genuine Climbing retreat for women with cancer June 2025, in the Gunks.
Opus 40 A sculpture park in Saugerties, New York, hand-built by Harvey Fite over 37 years from local bluestone.