"Make the tale live for us In all its many bearings, O Muse."

Or, sufficiently advanced cynicism is indistinguishable from naïveté.

A piece about the habit of treating hard work as the full explanation for success, and what that habit leaves out.

Photo by Max Muselmann Bukowski said, What matters most is how well you walk through the fire , and what we didn’t realize is that it’s all fire, all the time, and how we walk through it is how we…

Fragments on Eccentricity The concept of fomo has always alluded me. Part of the reason is a persistent need for eccentricity, for growing against the grain. That is not to say that I am persistently…

Some books are difficult to summarise because they are so rich and insightful that it is impossible to do them justice. Techno-Negative is such a book. Hence: This is not a summary, but a reflection…

A week after going public, the Topaz compiler repository is private again. A reflection on subtraction, open-source burdens, and choosing an open surface with a closed core.

When I moved into my newest home, there was an ant infestation. Small creepy little black dots darting from tile to tile in their single file lines, scavenging our scraps and amassing over our…

When we need radical change, we should all be radicals. Negotiating the discomforts and costs of disrepute.

I’ve been thinking lately about the desire to do things “by hand” and the dissonance between that feeling and being a “tech guy”. It’s pretty inarguable that I…

First order of business. My friend woke me up at midnight after reading my last post . He thought that I was crying for help. Rereading it now, I could understand how he came to the conclusion. But…

Pain is a side effect, not the active ingredient. Proximity to consequences is what teaches.