These are essays & thoughts from the variety of rabbit holes I’m curious enough to explore. My writing draws from my deliberately interdisciplinary background, work and reading. Each post is in a different stage of growth and doneness:

🌱 Seedling: Freshly planted ideas that need more exploring.

🌿 Sprout: Has a good foundation. More growth is expected.

🪴 Plant: (Fairly) established essays that get a minor pruning now and then.


My review of Bewilderment by Richard Powers · 🌿 · May 2026

A review of Yellowface by RF Kuang · 🌿 · May 2026

Sheffield at 21 · 🌱 · May 2026

Digital gardening in the age of AI · 🌿 · Apr 2026

The apps we live by · 🌱 · May 2025

Heroes and martyrs · 🌱 · May 2025

AI filters don’t replace art · 🌿 · Mar 2025

The narratives we build, build us · 🌱 · Feb 2025

Amoeba roles in tech · 🌱 · Sep 2024

Questions are desire paths of curiosity · 🌿 · Jun 2024

Luck is the echo of effort · 🌿 · May 2024

The medium is the pathway, not the purpose · 🌿 · Nov 2023

Levers of the soul · 🌱 · Sep 2023

Regrets are resolutions, and 27 other lessons at 27 · 🪴 · Apr 2023

The cartography of ambition · 🌿 · Jun 2022

Work Wide Web · 🌿 · Jul 2022

Writing advice, haphazardly collected · 🌱 · May 2022

2025 in fiction · 🌿 · Dec 2025