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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.
Things That Feel Like Thinking
On the difference between consuming information and actually processing it. And why the distinction matters more than ever.
The Wikipedia Game
Every Wikipedia article is at most six clicks from Philosophy. What does that tell us about the structure of human knowledge?
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.
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.
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.