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Now

This is a Now page. This page can also always be found at the permanent URL in the Now page directory.

Updated July 13, 2026, from my home in Salt Lake City.

Work

I’m in the last two weeks of my Master of Arts in Psychedelics and Consciousness Studies at the University of Ottawa, finishing at the end of July. I’m wrapping up my practicum with Psychedelia-Stiftung now.

I have been hanging out with Psymposia, the only organization I’m aware of doing actual autocritique in the field of psychedelic studies, for a few months. I’m helping them with tech stuff and chatting on the podcast.

I spun off a studio this week from elliotec: elliodelics, software for the psychedelic industry specifically. elliotec isn’t going anywhere.

I did a complete rewrite of The Consciousness Library, along with a round of content and data updates to the research database underneath it. It’s live now and in good shape. If that name is new to you: we did a rebrand — Mindscape Collective is now The Consciousness Library.

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Self

Since the last update, I’ve been spending the vast majority of my time in and around my home. We had a month-long trip to Europe planned for the summer that got canceled due to… unforeseen circumstances.

Despite the occasional cabin fever, I’ve been enjoying it. These past 6 months have been the least I’ve traveled in over a decade, including during Covid. Pros and cons. Lots of family time, chillin, workin on computer stuff, you know.

This probably wont change in the near future, so I should probably find something fun and productive to do while generally stationary. I’ve been playing more guitar lately I guess so that’s cool.

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Reading

I’ve had to read quite a lot for the master’s program. But I am still making time for my own reading. A few books I’m going through:

When school is done I expect this to pick up a lot.

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This website

This site just got rebuilt too, from a 12-year old Middleman project to Astro - you’re looking at it. Last update here said the old setup was “tough to justify a change” and that I wouldn’t. So much for that. I’ll write a post about it soon!