Hi, I’m Nik Hawks. This site is a collection of emails & essays mostly written to & for friends. For most of its life, that’s how it was used. Around September of 2020 I started a brief brush with minor internet fame as I started to help thousands of people deploy LoRaWAN gateway. It was a fun ride and I still work in and around LoRaWAN, among other things.
I’ve worked for and with many entities and individuals (FedEx Entrepreneur Advisory Board, travel feasibility studies for HNW individuals, the USG, Hollywood), almost always on one-off or odd projects. As you’ll see if you read through the blog, I’ve been into lots of different things over the past 4 decades, including instructor, advisor, entrepreneur, occasional adventurer and bon vivant.
Application is about stuff we’re actually doing or getting done and is usually a co-category with Letters.
The Book section is a couple of pieces that’ll eventually be woven into a book. Lots more to write, and some of it cuts off in mid-thought; this is just raw writing.
Building Blocks, Great Quotes and Home & Green are all bits and pieces of what I’m thinking at any one time. I really dig the Greeks, esp. the Stoics. Turned on to them through JB Stockdale and Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot and by WG.
Helium covers what I’ve learned about Helium since getting involved and deploying both DIY & manufactured hotspots. Most of it has been shifted over to the Gristle King site.
Ideas contains stuff that comes in bursts, usually very early in the morning and usually centered around teaching and a unique skill set.
Letters is the meat of this so far and consists mainly of letters between my friends & I. Reading through them gives a good idea of how I think, feel, and generally view life.
Mechaniking covers the occasional work I do on my 2002 VW Golf TDI.
Paleo Treats stuff: My wife Lee & I run Paleo Treats. If you dig PT go check out www.paleotreats.com or look us up on IG, which is where we’re most active (actually, where Lee is most active. I do lots of the non-social-media work.
Teaching is self explanatory. I’ve had the chance to teach hard chargin’ young dudes and I am blessed and honored to be in that position.
Enjoy it all, and write if you’d like, smash my first and last name together and throw gmail behind it.
“What is your profession? Being a good man.” ‑Marcus Aurelius