Reading is the art of attention.

The maniacal is an immoderate ideal, but an ideal nonetheless.

How the self-watching that once kept me safe became the thing keeping me at a distance—and what it means to stop fighting that habit and learn to aim it somewhere new.

Dealing with uncertainty is best managed by focusing entirely on what you can control, accepting what you cannot, and anchoring yourself in the present moment.

An essay about intellect, complexity, perfection and treating software as play-doh.

On dice, pigs, sex and Sartre.

Prufrock measured his life in coffee spoons. I seem to be measuring mine in glucose sensors. All the music I grew up with makes me cry to hear. It’s the void slip of feeling, the sinkhole of…

that is what drives us to write. once thoughts and feelings become words, they start to make more sense.

“It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship.” — Cal Hockley, Titanic (1997) After more than two decades in software, I’m probably closer to the end of my career than the beginning. Lately…

I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency, and write down what makes you happy. I’d like to add one more to the list: stealing is a skill!

I was thinking of writing another blog post. I was thinking about changing careers. I was thinking about starting a family. I was thinking about buying a new car. I was thinking... It can be so…

Why don't I go there? Yes, nobody stays there long enough, as if she cared, maybe she sill thinks about the things I said, the words she said to me were so banal and yet in my memory they glow bright…

Diane spent thirty years flying into hospitals at 2 a.m. to retrieve organs from the newly dead. Now retired, she has one last delivery to make: the advice nobody gave her. Don't wait until you're…

why does my mind imprison itself?

Lately I've been feeling like some part of me is trapped in ice, or stuck at the bottom of a lake. Unreachable, like crossing into the part of my hometown where there's never any phone service. It…

As a man, the opportunities available to us to cry, progressively decrease. A part of adulting as a man is to forgo emotion, to be detached. To avail the cry ticket, there are but a few…

Photo by Gera Cejas on Pexels Solving many professional challenges requires a special type of attention. Often, we don’t deliberately choose what we listen to and what we look at. And then…

Mary presents herself, by accident or otherwise, as having been a reserved child; as having already been an observer. She’s writing as a reserved woman who has decided to be as open as she possibly…

Person 1: This and this, and that and that…. understood? Person 2: Yes Teacher: [A complicated theory explained…] understood? Person 2 : Yes Unless a topic is extremely alien to us or of unfathomable…

Read the latest article: Less Is More, More or Less

Every fifty years a new kind of gold appears, and we ride past the thing worth keeping to go dig it up. We are doing it again.

This is a eulogy for a future that never was. I fell in love a few times. None of the relationships worked out. I got married once. I'm still working on getting un-married over a year later. I used…

There’s a steep hill at the end of the block that goes through a park with a nice view of the city. It’s the equivalent of about six blocks long. At one time, I would be huffing and puffing by the…

Contents A Damaged Painting and a Legacy System Pose the Same Question The Original State Is a Myth That Destroys What It Touches Preventive Conservation Acts on the Environment, Not the Work Brandi…

Not really a response to a Narrascope talk so much as the talk is an alarm letting me know it's time to have this conversation again.

Here's one: The point of the story ... is not that uniforms are a magical performance-enhancing catch-all. It’s that they’re objective correlatives for a broader sense of excellence and camaraderie…

He taught me many truths, but there was one lie I carried for years after leaving his class.

"The world is moving faster than ever…", and all of its paraphrased clichés, have become a personal pet peeve. It shows up in business articles, podcasts, and plenty of…

-René Daumal, French author and poet, 1908-1944.

I’m pretty sure the best answer to every problem can be encapsulated in one simple dictum. You can use this dictum to meet all your problems, regardless of what they are, and create the best possible…

Who even knows, you know? An opening line like that portends an existential rambling, or perhaps a commentary on the certitude of this culture, where everyone is yelling over their own insecurities…

Different from private things, in a somehow more exposed way, there is a specific quality to the music you listen to when nobody is watching: you press play and the room doesn’t change but you…

§ July 2025 The honeymoon is over. The first draft was a thrill. Now, it's a tombstone in the ‘review’ folder. Here’s how you ship: 1. Slay the Enemy. Your enemy is fear. You feel it now. A tightness…

Staring into the Void - by Myles Marino

I think we have come to the realization as a whole, slowly but steadily, that attention itself has become extremely vacuous. What does a million views mean? It used to mean something. It used to, to…

The fraud doesn't end at appointment—it must be maintained. The people best placed to name it are the people whose interests depend on not naming it. Part two of two on who keeps the corporate con…

Apparently, emotional freedom is a thing. Not in the I have transcended human existence and now float above attachment and suffering kind of way. More like, I still feel everything... I just don't…

Christianity is full of seeming contradictions. Joy through suffering, receiving through giving, gaining through losing, and more. Among them is freedom through servitude. St. Augustine focuses on…

Everyone’s seen the DIKW pyramid. Nobody knows what to do with it. Here’s a version that maps to what your organisation is actually doing - Reporting, Analysis, Insight, Action - and what…

This is the sort of book I usually hate. By law books about writing are so desperate to explain the world to me that I struggle to keep my eyes open. I don’t have much patience when I feel someone’s…

On the shame of unfinished projects, the difference between finishing and forcing, and making peace it.

I’m getting to the age where peers have accomplished a lot. I’m not talking about people who were exceptional out of the gate and did great things in their 20s […]

I think we all have parts of us that are put together and parts that are not put together And some of us choose only to show the world the parts that are And we do ourselves and the world a…

When I embarked on presence as my theme for the year, I hadn’t expected to learn about boredom. Half a year in, I’ve realised just how closely intertwined the two are. Boredom, in essence, seems to…

How I see conversations now and navigate through them without having the need to rush them.

the pursuit of understanding as an art form the manipulation of data to practical ends these things are not the same. they seemed to overlap, for much of the 20th century. that was an illusion. the…

Sayings. My mother loved sayings. She got most of them from her mother, who loved sayings too. “Who knows what it’s good for” was one of her favorites. When I was younger I didn’t understand most of…