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August 2013

Preparations for Burning Man 2013

It is August and the late-summer season urges annual preparation not for school but for Burning Man. San Francisco scurries to hardware stores, fabric outlets, industrial warehouses, and the most important: liquor stores. I return this year unexpectedly to Burning Man. Departing the Playa last September 2012, I declared, “That …

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I posted this cryptic message on my computer monitor at work. Fortunately, my boss and cube colleagues are not nosy programmers. In February 2014, I reached five years of employment at this energetic but struggling DNA-sequencing company in Menlo Park, California. In my lifetime here, I had seen so much …