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Why Love Needs No Reason
On the strange logic of justification, and why the deepest attachments resist explanation—a philosophical inquiry drawing from Kierkegaard to neuroscience.
PhilosophyPsychologyLove
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Reflections on technology, philosophy, and the craft of building software.
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·27 min read
From Email Chaos to AI-Powered Automation
The story of how I turned a 4-hour daily copy-paste nightmare into a system that processes emails while everyone sleeps. Complete with plot twists, debugging at 2 AM, and a healthy respect for the chaos of real-world data.
Healthcare AutomationAICase Study
·9 min read
The Surveillance Tax
Life360 built a $371M business on family anxiety. Here is why it is ripe for disruption.
Product AnalysisPrivacyTechnology
·10 min read
Building Prometheus: Notes on Personal AI Infrastructure
An account of constructing a comprehensive personal AI system—what was built, why it was built, and what the process revealed about the nature of intelligence augmentation.
AISystems DesignPhilosophy
·11 min read
The Complexity Paradox
If the universe tends toward disorder, why does complexity keep increasing? On entropy, gravity, and the strange fact that anything interesting exists at all.
SciencePhilosophyCosmology
·12 min read
The Axioms of Jiu-Jitsu
An inquiry into the first principles beneath the techniques—the irreducible truths that govern the gentle art, from biomechanics to game theory.
PhilosophyBJJSystems Thinking
·11 min read
Big History: The Art of Zooming Out
Why studying history globally instead of in specialized silos transforms how one sees everything—from the Bronze Age collapse to the architecture of software systems.
HistoryPhilosophySystems Thinking
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Can a Dictator Be Good?
Augustus gave Rome two centuries of peace. He also ended the Republic. A meditation on the terrible arithmetic of political violence.
PhilosophyHistoryPolitics
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From Grappler to Engineer: What the Mat Teaches About Code
An inquiry into the structural parallels between Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and software engineering—and what these parallels reveal about the nature of expertise itself.
PhilosophyBJJEngineering
·9 min read
Building VerseCraft: Where Code Meets Poetry
An account of building a literary platform that honors the written word—on the relationship between technical craft and artistic sensibility.
TechnicalDesignFull-Stack
·8 min read
Building a Modern Portfolio with Next.js
Reflections on rebuilding a personal portfolio from scratch—on the philosophy of self-presentation, the craft of web development, and what it means to make software that represents its creator.
TechnicalNext.jsDesign
·10 min read
What Building malloc() Taught About Memory
Building a dynamic memory allocator from scratch reveals truths about computation that no high-level abstraction can convey—lessons in trade-offs, fragmentation, and the nature of resources.
Systems ProgrammingCMemory Management