About Me

Steven Harms in St. Peter’s Square, Rome

Hello, welcome to my site.

I’ve been writing on the internet since 2003, with varying levels of regularity.

I have never segregated my interests between various sites. As such, this site has my thoughts about all my (many) interests had in my (many) residences across the (many) years: technology, business, San Francisco, philosophy, New York, government, Austin, entertainment, books, and code.

After fairly inconsistent posts across the rise of the social media era, I’m recommitting to my own, long-form content being my primary footprint.

As an occupation, I’ve wound my way through various experiences in the IT, engineering, and engineering education fields. I spent ten years working for Cisco, another five in San Francisco start-ups, and then five more in engineering / technical education. I’m presently happily employed at Bloomberg LP. My opinions expressed here are not to be taken as endorsement by any of my employers but are my own.

At the end though, this site has always been about life, philosophy, mystery, books, and music.

I live in Manhattan with my family.

Streams

If you want to stay up on my latest, I suggest you subscribe to my site using the RSS feed.

If the word “RSS” scares you, consider my newsletter. My curated updates will land in your inbox roughly every week or two.

For small micro-updates, you might consider following me on Mastodon.

I have explicitly chosen to leave Facebook and Twitter/“X” because I believe they are bad for humanity. I urge you to do the same.

GnuPG Identity

I try to promote citizens’ use of digital cryptography. If you need assured proof that a message comes from me, you’ll want my public key. Expand the triangle below for it.

GnuPG Public Key

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