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Essays, short notes, and records from the middle of making things all end up here. If I thought something was worth not losing, it probably qualifies.
Journey to a Black HoleI made a real-time black-hole demo, then filmed my monitor through my phone's telephoto camera. There are several layers of optics involved now.I Need People, Not an AudienceTen thousand people vaguely aware I exist may be less useful than five people who actually know what I am trying to do.I Have Never Really Had a CareerI cannot manufacture the conventional history I did not have. I can start making another kind of history visible.Day 0: Moving InI almost started by designing a social platform. Instead, I am trying something smaller: make one place on the internet that I actually use.Saying "I Made This" Is Weirdly DifficultI can explain something I built for an hour if you ask me. Volunteering the first sentence is somehow harder.I Don't Think I Have a Motivation ProblemThe engine works. Getting power to the wheels is another matter.A Good Idea Is Not a CommitmentApparently an idea can be good without immediately becoming a project, a company, an architecture, and a domain purchase.I Think I Mistake Architecture for ProgressArchitecture is real work. It is also exactly the kind of work my brain will happily keep doing after it stops being the bottleneck.I Think I Need a PR BuddyI can happily build something in private. Apparently the impossible sentence is: I made this, you should look at it.I Don't Want to Become Good at LinkedInI probably do need to get better at being visible. I am less convinced that means becoming good at performing visibility.Why This Site ExistsI have written and built an absurd amount of material that technically exists and still somehow feels lost.