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We have the best intentions to stay in contact with each other, but there’s never enough time. 6FPS is a newsletter I send out once a month full of the things we’d talk about over coffee if we could.

In each issue of 6FPS you can hear about what I’m doing and learn about interesting things that I’ve found.

You can expect a diverse set of items about birds and birding, photography, the environment and the green spaces in and around our cities, the internet and technology, and whatever else happens to catch my attention that I want to share.

There are also articles and special surprises written for and available only to subscribers. This newsletter is published once a month on the 2nd Monday of every month. It is free, with no strings attached. All you need to give me is your email address in the box below, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Each issue will have one or two original pieces not published elsewhere, along with links to all of the other content I've created. It will also include some of my photography, as well as pointers to a set of items I think you’ll find interesting.

My goal with 6FPS is to present to you on a regular basis a small set of high quality pieces of content that will entertain, educate and occasionally inspire you, to help you find the things worth looking at without having to try to find them in the firehose of information the net sprays at us every day. I curate away the fluff and the fat so you don't have to spend the time doing so. I've succeeded if you look forward to every issue and enjoy your time reading it.

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Give 6FPS a try. If it’s not for you, unsubscribe after an issue or two and that’s okay as well. But hopefully, you’ll find something every issue that makes it worth being a subscriber and getting one email a month from me.

6FPS Archives

2024 (Volume 6)

Who is Chuq Von Rospach

A short introduction (The longer introduction): I started working in the high technology industry in Silicon Valley in the 1980s and worked for a number of companies that were important parts of making Silicon Valley a dominant force in technology: I did 17 years at Apple, as well as stint at Sun Microsystems, National Semiconductor, Palm and Cisco as well as various startups.

In 2021 I moved to Kitsap County, Washington, away from the hustle and chaos that makes Silicon Valley so wonderful and frustrating. I am still working in the high tech industry, but now from a remote, less stress inducing location.

Away from work my interests include photography, mostly landscape, wildlife and birds; I’m very involved with the places birds and wildlife exist and the protection of those spaces for them and for future generations. I am an active birder and bird photographer and in the past have done a lot of volunteer work, writing and leading of group bird outings for organizations like Santa Clara Valley Audubon and the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory.

2023 (Volume 5)

2021 (Volume 3)

2018-2020 (Volume 1)

2022(Volume 4)

2020 (Volume 2)