Type: essay
essay
No Such Journey
Self help and consumption communities sell us journeys to become something we aren't. This isn't the way. There are some cleaner ways to realize ambitions, starting with discarding the narrative.
7 min
Andrew Lovett-Barron, writing and notebook
essay (active)
Fog, Friction, and the Dark Forest
Looking at the dark forest through the lens of Clausewitz, and exploring whether we can get ahead of the super predators that lurk in the dark of the internet.
11 min
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August 2024
July 2024
Type: essay
essay
Threads: craft
Mining Towns
Looking at the systems behind community identities, and how those identities are subverted and leveraged for profit. It's not great, folks.
9 min
Type: essay
essay
Threads: outlive
Parasites, Symbionts, and the Scabs
Parasitism, or a way of thinking about products that will hopefully prevent you from unleashing something evil.
6 min
Type: essay
essay
Building within an Ecosystem
A short (and evolving) writeup about building a rehype plugin in typescript
9 min
June 2024
Type: essay
essay
Threads: craft
Legibility in Work and Fiction
My path to technology and design is rooted in fiction. I realized this by when I revisited the source material. Here's a little note about Cryptonomicon, being legible, and startups.
10 min
Type: essay
essay
Threads: outlive
Systems Decay When Shared
We're terrible at adopting the systems of others. A "defined" system should always be approached with skepticism and curiosity — and systems of the self most of all. Some of these might be in your life: Productivity has everything from GTD…
9 min
May 2024
Type: essay
essay
Belief-based Planning
Project Planning with and against core beliefs, with an illustrated example
10 min
November 2023
Type: essay
essay
Blocking the Entrance to the Rabbit Hole
A bit of a meandering path down the mechanical keyboard and alternative layout rabbit hole, and back out again.
8 min
November 2021
Type: essay
essay
An Old Kind of New
For the past few years, I’ve been independent — as a consultant, as a contractor, as an indie developer, or in different kind of liminal states. It’s been overall awesome, though with its host of stressors. It’s also been uniquely…
5 min
Type: essay
essay
Renewing Spaces
Every few months, my wife and I change around our apartments configuration. The way this manifests is always a bit different. On the extreme end, we might move the bed into a different room, discard or donate a beloved piece of furniture,…
4 min
Type: essay
essay
Threads: outlive
Skill Spalling
The skills we develop aren’t permanent. They’re things that develop within a particular context — education, a workspace, a team, etc. — that accrete and slough off over time unless continuously reinforced. The now aged youth who studied…
5 min