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Thinking out loud

on AI, human experiences and rabbit holes!

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Selected writing

February 20, 2026

Learning in Public

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

January 15, 2026

The Last Human Skill

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.

December 10, 2025

Talking to the Machine

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

November 2, 2025

The 3 AM Rabbit Hole

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

October 18, 2025

Things That Feel Like Thinking

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

More essays

September 14, 20252 min read

The Wikipedia Game

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

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August 22, 20253 min read

Your Tools Shape Your Thoughts

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

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July 30, 20253 min read

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Showing Up

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.

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June 12, 20253 min read

How I Read a Codebase

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

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May 8, 20253 min read

On Collecting Things

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

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April 15, 20253 min read

The Museum of Forgotten Interfaces

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

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