Building My Way Out

Essays, photography, and other writing by Ricardo

Building My Way Out

One engineer's honest attempt to build a life beyond employment, documented as it happens.

Photo of Seattle's Pike Place overlooking the Puget Sound

The Leverage and the Loss

AI made me more capable than I've ever been. I'm not sure that's entirely a good thing.

· 5 min read
A path to a beach in Montauk, NY

A Perfect Day, Almost

We flew to New York to see our kids. I worked from the hotel room. They worked too. On the one free day, my wife and I drove to Montauk and lived the life I keep writing about. It was almost perfect.

· 5 min read
Photo of Chicago's downtown

The Thing Itself

I like the building part. Not the meetings about the building. Not the planning of the building. The building.

· 4 min read
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