About

I spent the first half of my life on the island of Oahu, being taught the importance of ohana and where mornings were spent slowly watching the sun rise across the water. Moving to Denver at 13 was jarring, not just because of this new ‘winter’ thing. The pace of the mainland was blunt, agile, and left me floundering, questioning if I could swim in the same sea as the great white sharks.

I first started to find my land legs with magazines. In lieu of beaches, I would frequent book stores and thumb PC building magazines until I was asked to leave. This was my gateway into PC building culture, a place that encouraged collaboration and sharing. It left me dumbstruck to see a community care so much for inclusion before I realized, it felt like home.

My travels around the globe have shown me that stable expansionism requires strong, yet malleable, foundations. The internet has enabled small teams and individuals to trade blows with corporate budgets who become bogged down by their own size, the very factor that gave their punches weight. Small groups are able to focus inwardly and consider pathways that might be more sustainable for everyone involved.

If I could ask one thing of everyone who reads this, it would be to simply consider the butterfly effect of their actions.  The cycle of life and death goes on, but a straw in the nose sounds like a terrible way to go. #savetheturtles