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Thinking out loud about code, craft, and the questions that won't leave me alone.

The Correspondence: On Truth, Untruth, and Whether It Matters

Two friends write letters to each other about God, reason, and whether a conversation is possible when one of them prefers untruth to truth.

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The Cost of Looking Closely

There is a room I keep returning to in my memory, and every time I enter it, someone has already ruined it by mentioning the future.

14 min read

Systems Are Lossy Compression

Every system you adopt is a compression algorithm applied to reality. Compression always loses data. The question is what you are willing to lose.

17 min read

An Attempt to Find the Axioms of Jiu-Jitsu

What if grappling has first principles the way mathematics does? Not techniques, but axioms. The irreducible truths from which everything else follows.

14 min read

From Email Chaos to AI-Powered Automation

Someone was spending four hours a day typing emails into a spreadsheet. I built the system that made that job disappear.

15 min read

Building Prometheus: Notes on Personal AI Infrastructure

What happens when you stop using AI as a tool and start building it as infrastructure — persistent memory, specialized skills, and a system that genuinely improves with use.

13 min read

Why Love Needs No Reason

Why the deepest commitments in life — to people, to craft, to ideas — resist justification. And why that’s not a flaw.

13 min read