Writing Archive

ESSAYS.

Personal essays with a mild allergy to certainty. Mostly about optimization, rhetoric, cities, learning, and the little systems people inherit without noticing.

Substack is the distribution layer. This site is the home base, so the writing earns search equity here instead of disappearing into someone else's platform.

2026-04-17

Doing Things that Don't Scale

A short argument for leaving some parts of life undecided before the optimizer gets there.

01
optimization serendipity

2026-03-17

A Manifesto Against Manifestos

A little rant against the genre of certainty, apocalypse, closure, and skipping the middle.

02
rhetoric certainty

2026-04-09

Manifesto Against Columba Livia

The pigeon manifesto: biology, disgust, cultural memory, and the problem of blaming a thing we made.

03
LIS manifesto