{"id":13144,"date":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/matt-major-life-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","slug":"matt-major-life-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/matt-major-life-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Major Life Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154724\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-1024x683.png?resize=604%2C403&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know everyone has been waiting to hear what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes, so I\u2019m just going to lay it out: <strong>I\u2019ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand\u2019s houseboat <em>Mirene<\/em>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People say \u201cthe two happiest days of a boaters life is when you buy the boat and sell the boat\u201d but <strong>I\u2019m not always the best at following advice<\/strong>, so I\u2019m going all-in on this <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2025\/11\/08\/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-tugboat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cute little tuggy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anybody who\u2019s founded a company and had to find good stewards knows that no one will love a thing quite like the original owner, but sometimes you can find the perfect person to carry the torch. I was happy to take on and upgrade John Mayer\u2019s EarthRoamer for about five years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154725 lazyload\" height=\"453\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-1-1024x768.png?resize=604%2C453&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 604px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 604\/453;\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154726 lazyload\" height=\"453\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-2-1024x768.png?resize=604%2C453&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 604px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 604\/453;\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I passed it on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dustinyellin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dustin Yellin, trading for some of his art<\/a>. But without a high-maintenance means of conveyance, I\u2019ve felt a hole in my heart and really boxed in and constrained. So from land, to the sea!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2025\/11\/08\/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-tugboat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Standard says<\/a> \u201cThe kitchen table may be where Otis Redding wrote \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Sittin\u2019 on) The Dock of the Bay<\/a>.\u201d I hope do a lot of blogging there. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154734 lazyload\" height=\"403\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-3-1024x683.png?resize=604%2C403&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 604px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 604\/403;\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/folklore.org\/Real_Artists_Ship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real artists ship<\/a>, right? <a href=\"https:\/\/press.stripe.com\/maintenance-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Longevity is all about maintenance<\/a>, and I\u2019m looking forward to all the lessons <em>Mirene<\/em> and the ocean will teach as we navigate the weather of the coming years. If the offer is accepted, I have a lot to learn from Ryan and Stewart about what\u2019s next.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know everyone has been waiting to hear what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes, so I\u2019m just going to lay it out: I\u2019ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand\u2019s houseboat Mirene. People say \u201cthe two happiest days of a boaters life is when you buy the boat and sell the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}