I work in tech. UX design, front-end, the whole thing, alongside my life with the dogs, the chickens, the kids, and the studio full of American Field magazines downstairs. Living at that crossroads showed me something: the same industry I build in is quietly erasing the things I love. Companies buying up physical books, scanning them, ripping the spines out so the knowledge only lives on their platforms. A bird dog going on point in a San Francisco park while everybody watching thinks the dog is "glitching out." So this episode is about a decision. The Sporting Life Notebook isn't going to be about chasing an audience — it's going to be a resource. A living archive. Real, tangible, human knowledge preserved on purpose, in a time when there's a very deliberate attack on our history, our traditions, and our connection to nature. I'm not running from technology. I'm using it to keep what's worth keeping. I get into the website rebuild, why I'm moving toward a field-notes format, what Solange's library model and the Lucasfilm archive have to do with any of this, and where my family fits — including the plan to travel the world in a few years and why the work has to be portable enough to come with us. New beginnings and continued traditions. That's the notebook. Read the full archive at thesportinglifenotebook.com. — D.S. Show notes / links: • The Sporting Life Notebook: https://thesportinglifenotebook.com (https://thesportinglifenotebook.com/) • The Unlikely Upland Hunter (eBook): https://durrellsmith.gumroad.com/l/unlikelyuplandhunter • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thesportinglifenotebook • Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesportinglifenotebook • Presented by Field & Stream Pack Provisions: https://www.packprovisionspet.com

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