Writing

Essays and dispatches, in reverse chronological order.

2026

Jan 26

Design Up Front

Give your agent a harness and put it in a fishing factory and you'll eat for life.

2025

Apr 16

And Farms Grew Larger and Owners Fewer

What do you do when tractors come and steal your job?

Mar 17

Day N

Day 1 is all about the thrills and motivations underlying technological innovation and business success. Day N is about thrill and motivation that comes with living each day well.

2024

Nov 25

Breaking to Building

AWS is all about Day 1. This is about Day 1, 2, 3, ...

Nov 05

A Text Editor for the Brave

What is Neovim, and how to uninstall VSCode. If you don't write a lot of code, this probably won't make any sense.

Aug 13

Breaking the AWS Account

A play by play of my time at Trusted Nurse Staffing.

Jul 17

apple-music.nvim

Apple Music + Neovim. Ugly duckling music player meets chad text editor.

Jul 11

Keep the Channel Open

Art, Oklahoma!, and a sense of inferiority.

Apr 03

Division the Hard Way

A description and solution for one of the more creative software interview problems.

Feb 27

Meditations

Reading 'Meditations' is kind of like Twitter except that in this world Twitter is good and it won't exist for a couple thousand years.

Jan 27

A Midsummer Night's Dream

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a play about love and a scenario so hilarious it would be difficult not to be entertained...

2023

Dec 22

Academic Integrity

What does it mean to have academic integrity? And why I think schools have it wrong.

Dec 13

To the Lighthouse

A beautiful (if not indecipherable) novel whose meaning flew far above my head when I read it.

Oct 08

Musical Triumph

Some people are obviously passionate. I think an obviously passionate person dances in public, or shouts their ardor from rooftops. Then I am not obviously passionate.

Sep 30