What’s Tracy up to lately?
Updated 9 January 2026
- Supporting outreach for a city green building program
- Writing a blog series on digital aura
I share weeknotes about what I did each week.
What I’m thinking about
These are the big questions I’m chewing on these days.
I’m really digging media ecology lately. Currently, I’m especially interested in:
Culture
- how do aesthetics bleed into ideologies?
- what builds taste?
- what’s the meaning of making in an age of generative AI?
- how does the internet change culture?
The future of society
- how can the United States resist fascism?
- how can Americans escape the patriarchy and gender essentialism?
- what does democracy look like beyond voting?
Basics
- Located in the US, in the Seattle metro area of the Cascadia bioregion
- Run a solo consulting business in environmental outreach supporting local governments
- Live in the suburbs with my partner and cats — I’m psyched about my wildlife garden
Inspired by Derek Sivers
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I’m a sci-fi writer, graphic designer and urbanist in the Seattle suburbs. Reading and blogging are my favorite pasttimes and I’m curious about everything from technology to ecology. I’m also an advocate of the indie web and like thinking about how we can connect outside of silos. I use this website to: track what I…
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