Focusing like a State

Giving useless aspirations a name and a shape allows us to kill them.

2025-03-26 · in life

Pareto Store; Everything Store; Everything Else Store

The evolving economics of retail have squeezed out what was once the most dominant model.

The Bookmark Nature

Bookmarks are the way we point our aspirations toward possible futures

2025-03-21 · in life

Two days to Python fluency

Learning python quickly as a way to get over the discomfort of learning from scratch

Failing algebra, in calculus

Why a passing grade in math can actually be a failure

Writing kata

Building mental strength and flexibility through routine

2025-02-03 · in meta

Reinventing the wheel factory

On software's endless treadmill of reinvention

90% Indifferent

None of us can afford to care about everything, but _someone_ has to care about everything for civilization to keep existing.

Clever apps re-invent the text wheel

Every app that implements custom text rendering seems to get it wrong

Twitter Group Chats are half-baked trash

Some off-the-cuff thoughts on how Group Chats are broken