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Creative risk evangelist, errant #flaneur, serial optimist, wordsmith. I ♥︎ to wa/onder, #carpemidlife, tele+H2O #ski, #doodle, #sail, #cycle, garden, learn...

Santa Fe, NM + Essex, NY
Joined October 2009
Hat tip to Justin Bariso’s @FastCompany article that lead me to @MIT professor Patrick Winston’s video “How To Speak”. #recommended youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY
Targeted and timely. Thanks. (And thank you too for “Hummingbird“. Similarly targeted and timely.)
A cure against poisonous thought? Yes, please. By Annie Lighthart
“With its latest capital courtesy of T. Rowe Price, California-based @Rivian has raised a healthy $8 billion since the start of 2019, which puts current valuation at $27.6 billion, according to Reuters.” robbreport.com/motors/cars/r… #Rivian #EVlust @RobbReport
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”2/2 — W.B. Yeats poetryfoundation.org/play/77…
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,...” 1/2 poetryfoundation.org/play/77…
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It’s time to coin a new term — riviandering — to describe the adventurous vagabonding uniquely viable with a @Rivian R1S or R1T. (Might also hint subtly at @RJScaringe’s meandering dream-to-launch quest?!?!) #Rivian #EVlust #riviander #riviandering teapawt.org/rivian/status/13487356…
We marked the anniversary of our 13,000-mile adventure from Patagonia to LA by inviting Long Way Up producer David Alexanian back to see our progress. Check out his reaction to the R1T, and in case you missed it, catch our @LongWayTV journey on @AppleTV.

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Thinking about @ananicolejune and @moosebot_art as I put away dishes from NYE dinner with family. #HappyNewYear2021, Ana and Chris!
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“Last week, former @astonmartin President Laura Schwab announced she had left the legacy British auto brand to become @Rivian’s vice president for sales and marketing. ‘It is sooooooo exciting!’ is how she put it.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Last year, Ford paid $500 million for access to @Rivian’s electric “skateboard” truck platform, a few months before Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos ordered 100,000 Rivian-made delivery vans.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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