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This site is a long-running collection of notes, essays, and small software projects. These articles are good introductions to some recurring concerns: clear thought, making things in the real world, and software that leaves room for people to choose and build.

Notes as thinking

• Questions for Notes — Questions give a note a place in a larger structure of claims, answers, and next actions.
• How to transform your notes from dead storage to thinking partner — Notes become useful when they take part in ongoing thought rather than merely preserving information.
• My top-down method for expanding notes — A practical way to develop a note by locating the larger claim it belongs to.

Thinking and making

• Four obstacles to thinking clearly — A guide to working with conflicts, surfacing assumptions, and resisting the feeling that one already knows enough.
• Doing Things Badly — On protecting momentum from perfectionism, tool-switching, and the search for a better setup.
• From idea to weblog to research — Writing in public as a way to explain, test, and crystallize an idea.
• Anti-Fragility again — Beginning with small facts and safe experiments rather than imposing a finished theory on reality.

Software and the open web

• Focus on a simple product and protocols — Small, replaceable tools with simple protocols let others build, connect, and improve without starting over.
• On the Fragility of the Internet — Publishing online is ongoing stewardship; durable public work needs copies, redundancy, and active care.

For everything else, browse the garden, projects, tags, or complete archive.