On Attention
EssayWhat does it mean to pay attention in an era engineered for distraction? A personal investigation into slowness, observation, and the cost of presence.
Studio / Writing
Essays, short fiction, and longer-form explorations of ideas that matter. Mostly about attention, place, and how things work.
What does it mean to pay attention in an era engineered for distraction? A personal investigation into slowness, observation, and the cost of presence.
A short story about maps, inheritance, and the places we carry inside us long after we've left them. Set in the Pacific Northwest.
Code is often described as craft — but what would it mean to treat it like one seriously? An exploration of patience, mastery, and the slow loop.
On the psychological experience of arriving somewhere new — the liminal months before a place becomes familiar, and what we notice then that we never do again.
A year of visiting the market every weekend, notebook in hand. Forty overheard fragments assembled into an accidental portrait of a city.
A meteorologist begins predicting weather that hasn't happened yet — or perhaps already has. A quiet story about certainty and its limits.
Against seamlessness. An argument for the value of difficulty, roughness, and the slight delay between intention and action.
A childhood memory of Puget Sound, revisited from adulthood. On how the body holds place and what returns when you go back.