Writing
Essays & notes
On systems, business, software, and building a life on purpose.
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How I Learned to Talk About Things That Are Changing
Five words that helped me describe interactions in people, organizations, and systems I have a recurring communication problem. Someone asks me a…
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Helping People See Who They Already Are
Years ago, while I was working at a growing consumer-products company, one of my coworkers said something about me that I have…
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Emotional GTD: How to Process Feelings Instead of Acting on Them
One of the most helpful insights I’ve had recently is that emotional maturity is a lot like Getting Things Done. In GTD,…
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What If AI Imagined a New Way to Compute? I Asked It To.
An experiment inspired by Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence In Nick Bostrom’s book, Superintelligence, one of the ideas is that a sufficiently advanced AI…
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Velocity, Acceleration, and Safety: Why Humans React to Change, Not Motion
Human conflict is often a response to changes in tempo rather than to the actions themselves. By naming acceleration as a distinct…
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The Room of Requirement: Why Hidden Spaces Appear in Stories, Organizations, and Real Life
In Harry Potter, the Room of Requirement is one of the most powerful ideas in the entire series – not because it’s…
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Authority, Winning, and the Cost of Staying Adjacent
This morning clarified something I’ve been circling for years but never named plainly: I have optimized for system impact, not personal authority.…
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Formation Over Validation: Living Forward Without Waiting
I’m starting to see the shape of the season I’m in more clearly now. It’s quieter than I expected, slower than I…
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I’m Ok, It’s Alright
Alright, I’m going to make up a song now from scratch. I know the first couple chords to it. It’s A minor,…