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Musings
Everything that isn't work: names, food, walking, traffic, and notes to my future self.
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Nobody tells you that growing up is mostly rewriting the future We build futures in our heads without noticing, and then life edits them. On losing a future that had already started to feel like a memory. -
Almost 25, and apparently I should know what I am doing On the peculiar expectations of the mid-twenties, and the discovery that confidence and clarity are not the same thing. -
The people who make our ambition possible We tell stories about solitary ambition. Almost nobody builds anything alone, and the ones holding you up rarely appear in the telling. -
Why some endings do not need a villain Anger gives an ending a clean explanation. Incompatibility does not. On the harder kind of goodbye, the one with nobody to blame. -
Why markdown files over a CMS Fourth in the Why this over that series: this blog is a folder of text files in git, and that is a feature list, not an absence of one. -
The correct way to eat suya Suya is not a meal, it is an event with meat in it. Eight rules, held with more conviction than any technical opinion I have. -
Traffic is a personality test Nobody is themselves in a go-slow. Everybody is themselves in a go-slow. A field guide to the people you become when the road stops moving. -
On having a name people can't say Six syllables, one inhale of hesitation, and a lifetime of small negotiations. What I have learned from watching people meet my name. -
In praise of the aimless walk A walk with a destination is transport. A walk without one is something else entirely, and the first ten minutes are the toll you pay for it. -
My notes app graveyard A tour of every system I built to remember things, and why I remember none of them. -
Hello, world. Again. Every blog starts with a post like this. Mine is no different, except it is shorter.