Long-form thinking on attention, craft, and how the mind works.
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?
Publishing rough thoughts in public taught me something I didn't expect: that polish and clarity are different muscles.
