readingcognition
On slow reading as a competitive advantage
The real bottleneck is not how much information you consume, but how much understanding you extract from what you read.
Notes
Shorter thoughts. Not polished essays — fragments worth sharing anyway.
Notes
Rough thinking-in-progress. Ideas that aren't fully formed yet. Published early, updated often. May contain contradictions.
Writing
Finished essays with an argument. More time, more editing. Find them in Writing.
designsystems
What defaults reveal
Defaults are not neutral; they encode a theory of what matters and quietly shape what we accept without scrutiny.
aiaesthetics
AI and the problem of taste
Language models can imitate preferences, but taste requires commitment to a standard and the willingness to cut what does not earn its place.