Featured Essay
The North Star for Personal Work
A personal website should not be a resume with prettier margins. It should make your thinking inspectable.
- Date
- Jun 8, 2026
- Category
- Personal
- Status
- Published
- Read
- 8 min
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The North Star for Personal Work
A personal website should not be a resume with prettier margins. It should make your thinking inspectable.
Notes Before Products
The fastest way to make a useful tool is often to write down the workflow before naming the feature.
How to Keep a Public Notebook
A public notebook is not a performance of certainty. It is a way to make learning leave a trail.
Small Bets and Clean Interfaces
A clean interface is a promise: the next action will be visible, reversible, and boring in the best way.
Reading as Infrastructure
Reading is not an escape from building. It is how the builder keeps better materials nearby.
Dream Maker and the Future of Interactive Narrative
Interactive narrative needs more than image generation. It needs memory, constraints, and a coherent world.
Legal Systems as Interface Design
A legal rule is also an interface: it tells people what actions are possible, risky, visible, or forbidden.
What Campus Communities Taught Me About Distribution
Distribution is not only reach. In campus communities, it is trust, cadence, and the ability to turn one event into shared memory.
Notes on AI Workflows and Personal Leverage
AI becomes leverage when the workflow is explicit enough to repeat, inspect, and improve.
This is a public archive for ideas in progress. Older notes may be revised as projects, reading, and judgment mature.