Hi, my name is pedro pavón. you’re probably here because we met — in person or online, somewhere along the way. Below you can find how to reach me and read about some of my interests. If you are curious about anything you see here, i hope you’ll say hello. If not, then here’s to the sunny slopes of long ago.
how to find me
🌸 BlueSky
🌸 linkedin
🌸 my podcast
🌸 pedropavon[at]gmail[dot]com
things i'm most interested it right now
Gardens
Wildcat and Osceola
Saving Democracy
The edges of systems and the limits of communities
The meaning of quality
Old-timey Baseball stories
Artificial Super Intelligence. I helped write this before AI was cool.
I’m teaching a law class about the intersection of AI, Law, and Power; syllabus here.
Origami Swans
Chatbots
Inside Tennis
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Barn Swallows
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
things i'm always interested in
Learning and Teaching
Mid-size Adventure Motorcycles and Scramblers
Dinosaurs
Wading Birds
Northern Cardinals
Jaguars
Cooking Rice
Cooking with simple ingredients
Overlanding
Baseball
Trees
forevers
The Four Noble Truths
Keanu Apache
Mango, my old friend
Haiku
@wildcat_scramble
101781 Gojira
The McDonald’s Test
Illmatic
The Florida Everglades
Appalachia
Flowers
MF DOOM
Sushi
art
Art I make (will i ever share this?)
Art collab
music
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WUSYANAME
Anime World
Larry 🍊
67 Turbo Jet
Hiroshi Suzuki, Cat
books
Here’s a list, in no particular order, of books I love that taught me a thing or two.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius;
Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners,and Skiffers by Glen Simmons, Laura Ogden;
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, & the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald;
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Akerman;
The Brothers K by James Duncan;
The Hidden Life of Trees by Mike Grady;
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano;
The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh;
The Overstory by Richard Powers;
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil;
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker;
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates;
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert;
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas;
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon;
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson;
Basho: The Complete Haiku;
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini;
Bolívar: American Liberator by Marie Arana;
The Tao of the Backup Catcher by Tim Brown;
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane;
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald;
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer;
Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games by Bartlett Giamatti.
a poem
“Lost” - by David Whyte
Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you.
another poem
“First Fig” - by Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!
a piece of a poem
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” - By Thomas Gray
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.