Essays

Long-form notes on building, changing, and making meaning.

This is where project notes become essays: clearer thinking about software, product work, self-development, language, music, poetry, and the strange useful patterns that connect them.

Building products

Notes from turning ideas into usable systems, including tradeoffs, interfaces, and product judgment.

Inner mechanics

Essays on motivation, fear, courage, identity, self-development, and moving from knowing to doing.

Language and meaning

Writing about poetry, communication, resonance, and how words shape what becomes possible.

Creative practice

Reflections on music, ceramics, experiments, and keeping craft connected to everyday life.

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AI and creation

The Prompt Is Not the Intent

Why AI-assisted creation needs to treat prompts as starting points, not complete expressions of intent.

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Draft queue

First essays to shape next

Why projects reveal more than resumes

Moving from knowing to doing

What football prediction games teach about feedback loops