The writing

Essays & Field Notes

Longer pieces and shorter notes, grown in the open. Newest first; nothing here is ever truly finished.

6 essays · newest first

We keep saying memory is like a database. It is not. Memory is architecture — it is what a mind builds to stand on.

The best software is the software you never notice. An essay on the quiet layer between intention and outcome.

Source code is a form of writing addressed to two audiences at once — the machine that executes it and the human who must live with it.

Feeds optimize for the new. Gardens optimize for the true. A case for publishing like a gardener instead of a broadcaster.

What happens to reading when the margin is inhabited by an intelligence that has read everything and understood nothing?

The first entry in a garden log. Notes on starting a digital garden, and why the metaphor is not a metaphor.