The Things We Learn to Notice On stress, hair, and how the brain gets better at finding whatever it keeps looking for. June 10, 2026 personalmindfulnesspsychology
The Price of Feeling Capable AI is making capability feel abundant. That does not mean it will remain cheap. May 8, 2026 aiworkeconomy
A Few Thoughts on Human Data A brief explanation of what I do for work, and why human data matters. April 30, 2026 aiworkhuman-data
You Should Be Dating on Facebook Marketplace Facebook built a dating tab. One tab over, it accidentally built a better one. March 7, 2026 product
The Key to Burning Out A framework for seniority that hopefully resonates with you. February 9, 2026 careergrowth
The Monthly Self-Interview I recorded myself answering the same questions on the first of every month for the past year. I'd highly recommend it! January 3, 2026 miscpersonal
Rebuilding This Site for 2026 Why I traded a custom-built static site for Astro, MDX, and a better way to share technical ideas. December 28, 2025 techweb-devastro
On Tradition, and How to Make Homemade Pasta Step by step guide to making homemade pasta every year. December 27, 2025 foodmisc
25 Another reflection on growing older, written at Stella and Fly on the Upper East Side. October 1, 2025 miscpersonal
Conversational Baseball Nine innings with the right people doesn't feel so long. Why is that? September 18, 2025 misc
Coming, Sprinting, Leaving, Learning Stories told at the end of an era. September 15, 2025 careermisc
Time Well Spent What is the shape of your social environment, and what's missing from it? February 17, 2025 miscpersonal
Occupational Storytelling The most important narrative you own is the story of how you can be demonstrably excellent. January 25, 2025 careerjellyfish
Habitual Regret The only thing that's constant is change, and the feeling that I should have changed sooner. October 7, 2024 personalmisc
24 A reflection on growing older, written at Stella and Fly on the Upper East Side. October 1, 2024 miscpersonal
The Unexpected Challenge of Buying Bread Sesame flour is everywhere, haven't you noticed? August 11, 2024 miscallergiespolicy
The Best Stocks to Buy Right Now Enter the world of automatically refreshing content with AI. November 19, 2023 gen-aiproductivity
The Stolen iPhone Playbook My phone got stolen in New York. Here's what you should do if this happens to you. November 13, 2023 securityunrelatedadvice
The Birth of a Yoyo → Part 1 Let's talk about how to create one of the most popular toys in the world. June 25, 2023 yoyoingdesign#boay
Capture the Flag An online, async Capture the Flag game. Hosted on this webpage. November 21, 2022 hackingsystems
Why The Links On My Website Turn Pink Favorite colors and digital breadcrumbs. January 28, 2022 techunrelated
Creating Music Metrics and Modeling Artist Relationships with Spotify's API I love two things more than anything- music and computer science. Let's use Spotify's API to combine the two! Topics include Music Recommendation, Discography Ranking, creating a Graph of Related Artists, finding the shortest path between two artists, & more! December 12, 2020 productivitymusicdata-science
I asked 50 strangers to make up a new word. This is my new Internet Lexicon. Curious to see strangers' creative ability, I went on Omegle and asked 50 participants to create a new word, and tell me what it means. November 25, 2020 tiktokmisccreative
The HotPlot- A Fun Way to Prioritize Ideas Everyone wants a way to prioritize their ideas and side projects, but doing so often feels tedious and unhelpful. Introducing the HotPlot, a way to organize your thoughts that feels right. July 8, 2020 productivity
Joyful Kotlin- The Class You Never Knew You Needed Kotlin is a language that runs on the JVM, is supported (and recommended) for android development, and has extensive syntax support for important concepts like null safety, concurrent / parallel processes and static typing. Why isn't it being taught in more CS curriculum? June 3, 2020 educationkotlin
Why You Should Intern At A Startup Working for a startup may not give you immediate prestige on your resume, but it does teach you valuable opportunities and skills that large companies simply cannot offer. May 18, 2020 careeradvice
The Importance of a Good README How a well-written GitHub README can make your project more successful. May 17, 2020 gitproductivity
Privacy First Contact Tracing, in Layman's Terms In order to re-open the economy in the fastest and least-damaging way possible, contact tracing applications will play a huge roll. But how do these apps work, and how do they protect our personal information? May 17, 2020 securitycoronaviruscryptography