The oldest essay still on the blog is The Waterway (January 16, 2012). It is a short meditation on pausing in the middle of a fast life: “Ironically, I find the more disciplined I am about taking time to pause and reflect, the more glorious and…” — the rest is on the post itself.

In 2016 he published Revolutionary Mindfulness. In 2018 he spoke at Cascadia College; the talk is on the blog and in the short book Matt Ready Dialogues: The Cascadia College Talk. He also hosts The Mindful Activist, a podcast whose episode transcripts live on mattready.net.

One essay in The Complete Works of Matt Ready is titled “I Meditate So That I Can Dance.” That title is part of the published collected works; the original post was not among the 61 posts currently on the live blog.

Matt Ready is an elected commissioner of Jefferson County Public Hospital District No. 2 (Jefferson Healthcare), Position 3, in Port Townsend, Washington. He first ran in 2013 as an activist for healthcare access for all, took office in January 2014, and was re-elected in November 2025 to another six-year term (54.17 percent, as recorded in The Complete Works of Matt Ready).

In a 2016 post he wrote that after taking office he began talking with fellow commissioners about public hospital districts supporting single-payer healthcare, and that the board then became “the first public hospital district to pass a resolution supporting single payer healthcare either at the State or Federal level.” On March 19, 2014, as he later told it, he began recording commission meetings; when asked to turn the recorder off, “I then handed the recorder to a friend in the audience and she pressed record so the meeting could continue.” That public-records fight is the subject of several of the books above. A 2025 op-ed is titled “Sunlight Is the Best Medicine for Democracy.”

Earlier, he worked as a facilitator in Occupy Port Townsend (2011). The same civic thread runs through the Wisdom Project, Hive1.net, and the Global Consensus Project: rooms built so better thinking can surface without a referee who already knows the answer. His hospital-commission campaign and commissioner writing live at Ready for Healthcare.

Music belongs in the same life as the writing and the meditation — hence that Complete Works title, “I Meditate So That I Can Dance.” On the public blog there is not a formal discography to list here. What is on record: he hosts The Mindful Activist, and he posts video on YouTube, including the channel Matt Ready and, more recently, Hive1 Alive. A November 11, 2026 blog post embeds a Hive1 Alive video titled Profanity.