Things I couldn't stop thinking about.

On uncertainty and certainty

The messy process of drafting, editing and publishing

On Modern Life, Main Character Energy and Self-Obsession

What Git can teach us about micro-identities, reinvention, and becoming new versions of ourselves.

Using Bayes' theorem to understand why relationships get trapped in old beliefs about who people are.

What toxic relationships and dark patterns share: information asymmetry, fatigue, and engineered difficulty saying no.

Personalized feeds don't merely shape our opinions; they can make us inhabit different realities.

Presence is not one state: participating, observing, and documenting each change how a moment becomes memory.

From Stasi surveillance to behavioral metadata: how invisible context became an instrument of power.

What cognitive dissonance and information overload reveal about our preference for coherence over truth.

Why humans read minds into machines—and why fluent AI activates instincts built for other people.

How short-form media is changing our tolerance for narrative, attention, and emotional payoff.

Why the internet made visibility easier, more necessary, and strangely exhausting.

How platforms compress messy human emotions into predictable signals—and leave us emptier for it.

Why knowing someone once is not the same as continuing to know who they are becoming.

When convenience replaces tiny acts of dependence, relationships can weaken without either person noticing.

What we lose when efficiency removes the creative struggle that makes an experience feel like ours.

An airport arrivals hall as a study of love, loneliness, hospitality, and the simple act of showing up.

When AI makes achievement cheap, what signals still prove that a child is actually learning?