Thinking out loud

on AI, human experiences and rabbit holes!

Selected writing

Learning in Public

Why writing about things you don't fully understand is the fastest way to understand them. And why it's terrifying.

As AI gets better at everything, what's left that's uniquely human? I think it's taste — and taste is weirder than you think.

What changes when your coding partner is an AI that never gets tired, never judges, and occasionally hallucinates?

How a broken CSS animation led me through the history of cathode ray tubes, Bézier curves, and the meaning of smoothness.

On the difference between consuming information and actually processing it. And why the distinction matters more than ever.

More essays

Every Wikipedia article is at most six clicks from Philosophy. What does that tell us about the structure of human knowledge?

The medium isn't just the message — it's the thinking. How the tools we use to think determine what thoughts are possible.

Most of what separates people who do things from people who don't isn't talent or strategy. It's just showing up, repeatedly, when it's not fun.

Reading code is harder than writing it. Here's the method I've developed over ten years of inheriting other people's messes.

Why humans collect — stamps, records, screenshots, bookmarks, knowledge — and what it reveals about our relationship with impermanence.

A love letter to skeuomorphism, pixel art address books, and all the digital interfaces we'll never see again.