Kickstarted my blog again. This time with notes, links, and long form →

Started running for cardio health

Became an AI agent

Built some very bespoke models for 2389

Started carrying a tiny point and shoot digital camera to capture more moments

"Started" 2389, Research Inc →

Invested in some local GPUs

Started using AI to aid my coding

Started working with a personal trainer, again: Krys

Started hacking on some AI stuff

Received my uncle’s 70s macintosh stack. Vintage HIFI rules.

Started fourth vision quest / walkabout

Galactic officially shuts down 😥 →

Made the hard decision to shut Galactic down

Galactic launched the beta of skyteller.xyz →

Stopped going to Chicago Bulls games regularly

Got really into HYPERPOP

Galactic started focusing on crypto off-ramps

Accidentally launched Floppydisk.xyz →

Started going to Chicago Bulls games regularly

Launched Galactic Camera →

AMAZING THING HAPPENED

Started using OSX full time cuz Apple Silicon is fast af

Published my “decentralized” website: https://harper.eth.link →

Joined my first DAO →

Got a pair of Klipsch La Scala speakers on a whim

Convinced my brother, Dylan, he should start his own crypto company and follow his dreams! →

Fake.sale got banned from opensea →

Hacked together art.pizza →

DDove deep into web3.

Launched fake.sale, my first NFT project →

Bought my first NFT →

Joined the RAND Pardee School Board of governors

My brother convinced me to get a peloton and start riding. Fun!

Wrote up all my time doing covid work over the first 3/4 of 2020 →

"Started" General Galactic Corporation →

Found out I was a Jamstack Pioneer based on our work at Obama for America →

Launched zooooom.us - a screensaver for our anxious times →

Started doing COVID-19 work full-time

Started watching covid →

Reclaimed modest.com and started using harper@modest.com for my email again →

Joined the RAND Pardee School’s Tech & Narrative Lab advisory group →

Opened the company.lol office to figure out what the next thing will be →

Became a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC →

Named as a 2019 delegate for the US-Japan Leadership Program →

Started using Linux full time again

Became a MIT Medialab Director’s fellow →

Started third vision quest / walkabout

Left PayPal to pursue my dreams

Turned 40

Started doing yoga

Slightly regretted spending all my bitcoin on things

Used up all my bitcoin buying Leica cameras on overstock

Joined IllinoisTech Computer Science advisory board

Joined Royal United Service Institute advisory board

Installed a permanent rock monument in my parents front yard that is inscribed, “Boyhood home of Harper & Dylan Reed. The first astronauts to explore Uranus” →

Started living at the house in Ukrainian Village

Joined Cornell College Board of Trustees

Bought a Lieca Monochrom from a good friend. A perfect camera

Started carrying a camera everyday

Purchased a Lieca Q. Started carrying a camera everyday

Decided to make photography a real hobby

Started as Senior Director @ PayPal, inc

Sold Modest, Inc to PayPal

Was awarded 4 patents for work done on Modest, Inc

First time visiting South America (Santiago, Chile). Fifth continent outside of U.S. I visited.

Cornell College Young Alumni Achievement Award →

Started working out

Started working with a personal trainer: Dan

Adopted our wonderful puppy, Lulu

Started living at the condo in West Town

Became an honorary patron of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College →

First time visiting Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa). Fourth continent outside of U.S. I visited.

Wrapped my parents car in zebra stripes while they were on vacation →

First time visiting Australia (Sydney, Australia). Third continent outside of U.S. I visited.

CTO of the Year @ Moxie Award

Installed ant miners in the Modest office

Launched FriendFracker with Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer at Seven on Seven. →

Breakout of the Year @ Webby’s

Did a TED University talk at TED which predicted that the 2016 election would be hacked and manipulated →

Started doing a lot of speaking internationally

Started a company called Modest, Inc with @dylanr

Started second vision quest / walkabout

Helped Barack Obama win his reelection campaign

40 under 40 @ Crains

Stopped going out as much

Started as the Chief Technology Officer at Obama for America

Bought a kindle for 45 bitcoin

Started using OSX for work

Discovered Minecraft

Data Innovation Award @ MCIC

Started living at the apartment in Wicker Park

Became the Customer in Residence for Rackspace Hosting

Started first vision quest / walkabout

Left Threadless to pursue my dreams

Built CityPayments.org with Daniel X Oneil

Built Unofficial Transit API for Chicago Transit Authority

Received a photo credit in Metallica’s Death Magnetic album. It should have gone to Derek Brooks. →

Started living at the apartment in North Center

App Engine launched - learned python and launched Excla.im, Awesome Updater, and Chicago Alerts

Turned 30

Got married to Hiromi

Became CTO of Threadless

Stopped using Windows for work, or personal OS

Started using Linux full time

Started at Threadless as an engineer

Vox Paid for radio ads with my name in them: Step behind the velvet rope with Harper Reed.

Started Working as a Summer Intern with Seth Godin @ Squidoo

Started a podcast about the club scene in chicago with my Vox Vodka sponsorship

Became a professional vodka drinker - Got a sponsorship by Vox Vodka

Got laid off. It was awesome!

Started Working as a web programmer @ Cramer-Krasselt

First time visiting Asia (Delhi, India). Second continent outside of U.S. I visited.

Juggled on stage at the Metro for Chris Holmes’ Electroclash night

Did a juggling show for Billy Corgan’s showcase at the Hideout

Stopped promoting parties in Chicago. I was terrible at it

Started promoting parties in Chicago.

Started my first “startup” - 3g Screensaver. Selling ringtones and wallpapers for phones

Regularly street performed with Matiss Duhon in downtown Chicago

Started going out clubbing every night. Well M,T,W,F,S lol.

Sprint launches Samsung A500 and I launch a500hacking.com

Net Vision Honorary Mention @ PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA

Launched Audreyhacking.com to help hack the 3COM Audrey. →

Hosted my first colocated server in a data center at OAR.net

Purchased my first server (A firesale VALinux 2U server)

Started living at the apartment in Logan Square

Moved to Chicago, IL

Graduated from Cornell College with a degree in Computer Science and Philosophy

Started first job as a Security and Software Engineer @ World Book Publishing

Started an internship @ MSI in Cedar Rapids, IA

Opened for Sir Mix-A-Lot as a juggler

Opened for Incubus as a juggler

Turned 20

Juggled for the first time with @dylanreed

Learned to Juggle

Started going to Cornell College in Mt, Vernon, IA

Moved to Mt. Vernon, IA for college

Purchased my first laptop

Purchased my first domain name: nata2.org. Still used as my email address.

First time visiting Europe (Dublin, Ireland). First continent outside of U.S. I visited.

The ATF visited and suggested I stop using BBSs, and stop blowing things up. I did the latter.

Ran my first Apache server

Waited in line for Windows 95

Started going to Greeley Central High School

Started living at the house on 43rd ave in Greeley, CO

Started a terrible punk band called Faucet with Atkins Meyer, Karl Mahlburg, and some friends.

Started snowboarding

Started subscribing to MONDO 2000 →

Started going to Heath Junior High

Bought a Boing Boing and MONDO 2000 magazine at Powell’s in Portland. Changed everything.

Installed Linux for the first time: Yggdrasil. Linux changed everything. →

Saw Public Enemy open for U2.

Ran up my first huge phone bill dialing into BBSes around the country. &TOTSE forever

Saw Metallica for the first time.

Started going to Maplewood Middle School

Built a computer for the first time. Ram was so expensive so I could only afford 1mb.

Went to first concert, David Bowie.

Got really into OS/2

Turned 13

Was enamored by Roxanne Shante.

Bought Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

Stopped taking myself seriously

Received an older IBM PS/2 model 25 for my birthday. My brother and I played a lot of kings quest.

Got Love and Rockets’ Earth, Sun, Moon for my birthday.

Programmed BASIC based on code from the 321 Contact magazine

Started going to Cameron Elementary School

Accidently got Killers by Iron Maiden. Changed everything.

Started going to Shawsheen Elementary School

Family got a Apple IIc. My brother and I set it up.

Learned to code LOGO on an Apple II

Started living at the house on 11th st in Greeley, CO

House caught on fire and burnt a bunch. LEGOs survived

Started living at the house on 27th ave in Greeley, CO

Television broke. Never got fixed

Started living at the house near the hospital in Greeley, CO

Brother @dylanreed was born. The Reed Brothers are finally united.

Started living at the farm house on rd 15 in Greeley, CO

Secret Brother Jon was born. The Reed Brothers are almost united.

Moved to Greeley, CO

Started living at the house on 11th st in Greeley, CO

Started living at the house in Windsor, CO

Moved to Windsor, CO

Harper was born in Greeley, CO