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Cultural critiques, essays, stories, ideas. Mostly honest. Occasionally useful.
Mar 2025
Essay
"What attention actually costs"
On the economy of noticing — what we pay when we look, and what we lose when we don't.
8 min
Jan 2025
Cultural Critique
"Against productivity culture"
Why the language of efficiency is doing violence to how we think about work, rest, and the point of being alive.
11 min
Nov 2024
Essay
"In defense of difficulty"
Hard things are worth doing precisely because they are hard. A defense of friction.
7 min
Oct 2024
Story
"A year of only translated fiction"
What reading nothing in English for twelve months did to how I see the world.
14 min
Aug 2024
Idea
"Infrastructure is care"
Fifteen years building things that hold communities together. What I've learned about what actually constitutes care.
9 min
Jun 2024
Cultural Critique
"The optimization of everything"
When every system becomes legible and measurable, what gets lost in the translation.
10 min
Apr 2024
Note
"On not having a take"
A short defense of sitting with things before deciding what to think about them.
3 min