Site 2026
Welcome to the latest version of my website. Continuing my annual tradition, I've rebuilt the site with a new platform and design—this time by developing my...
The Ghost
All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so...
Diner
Read review: Diner
Colocating your pytest fixtures
pytest is, in many ways, the Age of Adz of the broader Python ecosystem: a rewarding idiosyncratic departure from convention whose quirks and foibles are...
Secret Mall Apartment
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The Rehearsal (Season 2)
It's useful and fitting that yesterday I wrote, in reference to Secret Mall Apartment:
Black Bag
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies about America:
Howard
One of the many goals of a strong brand is to subsume the work of every individual who contributes to that brand into the Gestalt. wardrobes are designed by...
Conclave
I briefly and incorrectly thought that Conclave was a serious film in the style of, say, The Young Pope. This is not the case. The plot is deeply unserious,...
Before Sunrise
I watched Before Sunrise for the first time around a decade ago, and I appreciated it then for what it was on the surface: a straightforwardly terrific and...
Slacker
Inspired by my rewatch of Before Sunrise, I decided to turn on Slacker, which was Linklater's directorial debut, and considered a gem in its own right. It is...
My approach to GTD and PKM
One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems that aren’t working, and you tend to write about things...
Consider the data product
The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is evergreen:
Monster Sanctuary
Here's the rough pitch on Monster Sanctuary:
Notebook as marketing primitive
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful...
Meta's two assets
(Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly than Meta. I had a Facebook account in high school and...
Projects are things with steps
Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked so frequently that I decided to write about it.
Liberal Arts
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Goodwill
Read essay: Goodwill
Ashland, 2025
Trundle is not quite the right word. When I hear trundle, I think of layers, of wool and dampness, of hitting the road before the sun does, wrapped in a...