//mind
Essays, theses, what I believe
Long-form arguments and slow thinking. The pieces I'd put on a shelf if the shelf could hold pixels.
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//mind2026-05-07 · essay
The cost of being available
I once calculated, in a fit of late-night rigor, that I had been on call — in some informal sense — for roughly 4,200 of the previous 4,380 days. The number was wrong only in that it was too low.
read · 16 min →//mind2026-05-06 · essay
The second-brain trap
Most note-taking systems are productivity cosplay. Three rules separate the ones that pay rent from the ones that don't.
read · 12 min →//mind2026-04-22 · essay
Why we refuse to ship anything that can't be rolled back in 30 seconds
The seatbelt rule that changed how my team thinks about risk, debt, and the difference between courage and stupidity.
read · 3 min →//mind2025-12-31 · annual
Annual: 2025
What I built, what I learned, what I'd do over. The first complete year of writing the work down as I do it.
read · 4 min →// pillar total7,024 words·35 min reading·earliest 2025-12-31