Writing
Essays and notes.
Long-form pieces that do not belong inside a book, and shorter notes that are not yet ready for one. Ten essays on attention, decisions, identity, maintenance, and the limits of self-improvement.
Attention and Media · 4 June 2026 · 6 min
Your Attention Has a Market Price
You are not the customer and you are not the product. You are the inventory, and the inventory has a rate card.
Decision Making · 18 June 2026 · 6 min
Good Decisions Can Still Produce Bad Outcomes
Judging your choices by their results teaches you superstition. Here is what to judge instead.
Identity · 2 July 2026 · 6 min
You Do Not Find Yourself, You Build Yourself
The instruction to discover who you really are assumes a finished object is buried somewhere. There is no such object.
The Body · 16 July 2026 · 5 min
Sleep Is Maintenance, Not Rest
Rest is optional and can be caught up on later. Maintenance is neither of those things.
Systems and Entropy · 30 July 2026 · 6 min
Everything You Built Is Already Fading
Fitness, skill, trust, and closeness are not permanent acquisitions. They are rented capacities with a monthly charge.
Comfort and Economics · 4 August 2026 · 6 min
The Hidden Price of Convenience
Every convenience removes a demand. Every removed demand takes a capacity with it. The bill is real and it is deferred.
Systems and Infrastructure · 8 August 2026 · 7 min
The Invisible Engines Behind an Ordinary Morning
Before you have finished your first cup of coffee you have depended on a dozen systems you cannot name and could not build.
Compounding · 12 August 2026 · 5 min
Intensity Is a Bet, Consistency Is a System
Intensity produces stories. Consistency produces results. They are easy to confuse because only one of them is interesting to talk about.
Philosophy and Tradition · 16 August 2026 · 6 min
Strength Was Never Only Force
Older traditions had a more precise vocabulary for strength than the one we inherited. Some of the distinctions are worth recovering.
Ethics and Critique · 20 August 2026 · 6 min
When Self-Improvement Becomes Self-Erasure
A critique of the field I work in, including the parts of it I am responsible for.
The letter is where new work appears first.