While there was immeasurable turbulence to the year, I do have a lot to be thankful for looking back at the past 365 days. In an effort to take a hopeful and optimistic approach to life, this is going to be a piece largely about the good that came out…

Introducing a brand for ocean exploration and rewriting the human-ocean narrative. — The relationship humans have with our understanding of the Ocean has been very broken for some time now. Something like a toxic, bad relationship or marriage. For some reason — we can’t seem to break the cycle. We anchor it in our mind to the wrong things. Right now, as…

We’ve collected the articles that made a lasting impact in our brains internally at Bedrock and we’re sharing them in one place for everyone. Ocean Exploration Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth. May 10, 2020 — The New Yorker “When Alan Jamieson, the expedition’s chief scientist…

O.G.P. — The kind of people we want to try to make history with. — What makes one company different from the rest? Pretty simple actually. It’s the people and resources those organized humans have access to. Who they are, what they’re doing, and how they think + interact together. That’s it. Particularly in the technology space where most of the tools and infrastructure utilized…

Bedrock is now hiring. — It’s a big day. We’re growing our family in the two key areas where we’re developing technology: data acquisition (robotics) and data management (cloud software). As the first two hires of the company, these are critical roles far beyond the technological hurdles that need to be overcome. We’re looking for…

A public benefit corporation developing technology to make sure humans get full-ocean exploration right. We’re vowing to explore and map the entirety of Earth’s oceans. — It is a scientific, environmental, and humanitarian imperative that we map, image, and classify our Oceans. We often pontificate about humanity traveling to space and becoming a multi-planetary species. Humans do need another option if we are to survive beyond the existence of Earth.

Local knowledge on how to get the most out of San Francisco after work. — As someone that’s infatuated with NYC, and now someone that spends a week a month in San Francisco, I’m always looking to find “the beat” in SF. That NYC energy and spark. I haven’t been able to find it yet. However, that changed this trip thanks to an ultra generous…

Something to share about me moving forward. — If you ever work with me, if you ever become my friend, if you’re my family and never understood what was going on, I’m writing this for you and also for myself. This isn’t meant to be preachy, it’s merely a bit of my life I want to share with…

What would an ocean map look like and do for the world? (Part 3 of 3) — I love maps. I think they’re one of the most elegant and effective infographic visual formats humans have ever created. …