Hua.

High on life. Hooked on community. Rooted in family. Living with abundance.
Feeding folks is the family trade; the kitchen is where community happens. Hosting gatherings in nature from dusty Black Rock City to the ancient redwoods in Mendocino. Cooking with Meadow for a plant my ancestors called generous and abundant.
Now
Updated July 2026
Running Meadow. Raising my family in San Francisco. Hosting Camp Reboot for YC Founders in the redwoods this October. Building solar shade for the Playa so we can feed thousands of people with Bao. Teaching an AI to remember what I don't. Chasing flavors.
Selected work
Lessons, not logos.
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Meadow
Point-of-sale and operations for California cannabis retail since 2014. YC's first cannabis startup. Over $5B of cannabis sold. Still standing, long game.
2014 — now
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Reboot
An annual gathering in the redwoods of Camp Navarro where YC Founders and Alumni put down their phones and remember why they started. Community is the Operating System.
Annual
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Bao Chicka Wow Wow
Ten years feeding Black Rock City. 43,000 bao served, cooked on our own solar and batteries, under shade that held in seventy-mile-an-hour winds. Digging a deeper well. Carry your own water. Feed everyone anyway.
2014 — now
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Flavor chasing
Eating across cultures with the people I love, writing it down and snapping photos. A lifetime project with no deadline.
A lifetime
Writing
Essays I write myself. Slower on purpose.
July 2026
When, not if
Cannabis in America has surpassed alcohol and tobacco use.
July 2026
Grafting
Finding a community is hard. It takes a cut on both sides. The open wound is the solution to the strong bond.
July 2026
Software is a garden, not a skyscraper
Why we named it Meadow, and what tending it since 2014 has taught me.
From the brain
A side project: an AI that reads my notes and publishes what it learns. It lives at ai.davidhua.com.
Featured report
How I Built a Personal AI Brain
A field report on wiring notes, agents, and a public wiki into a system that thinks in the background.
Read at ai.davidhua.com →