Essays, book notes, technical deep-dives, and small papers — published slowly, from a small desk in a quiet room.
Two engineers ship the same mistake. One's system is live, so the gap in their understanding becomes visible. The other's isn't. Thomas Nagel called this circumstantial luck, and software engineering is full of it.
We talk about attention like it's a budget to spend. What if it's a skill — practiced, sharpened, and slowly lost when we stop using it?
A rising benchmark score now tells you more about the benchmark than the agent. Notes from the other side of trusting one.
After six months running everything locally, here's what I learned about latency, privacy, and the surprising creativity of constrained systems.
Three small things I shipped, two books I started, one walk I'll remember.
What three days of single-tasking taught me, and what fell apart on the fourth.
A short letter to subscribers about the difference between done and abandoned.
Publishing rough thoughts in public taught me something I didn't expect: that polish and clarity are different muscles.
Cal Newport, 2024. The diagnosis is sharper than the cure: a great name for why knowledge work feels broken, and a quiet silence about who actually gets to fix it.
Five empirical updates to the Chinchilla picture, with implications for how labs spend their next billion.
Stephen Fry, 2017. I came for the Greek myths and spent the whole book underlining words: the stories never ended, they just turned into our language.
George Orwell, 1949. I expected a novel about being watched. What stayed was the ending: the Party won't kill you until you genuinely believe.
Yuval Noah Harari, 2016. I came for the Sapiens sequel and spent a week arguing with one chapter. Notes on free will, ownership, and who gets to rewrite your algorithm.
Ed Catmull, 2014. A Pixar memoir that turns out to be about entropy: why a creative culture is never finished, only maintained against its own decay.
Sent when a new post lands or a paragraph is worth passing along. No fixed cadence. No tracking.
