Posts

  • built in our image

    AI products extend the kind of intelligence that lives in text. The kind that holds rooms together has no tooling at all.

  • writing has no tasting room

    Coffee has a tasting room. Writing keeps its depth inside. On the distance between carrying something real and being found through it.

  • the garden we're building inside

    Listening to Justin Bieber retell Genesis in Iceland, I found a framework for AI's ornamental excess and choosing knowledge over intimacy.

  • sacred saddlebags

    Medieval portable altars traveled from Denmark to Constantinople. What do portable tools teach us about practice between institutions?

  • the fingerprint in the wire

    Anders Hermansen's wire prototypes in Copenhagen showed me what separates designs that carry a maker's fingerprint from those that follow trends.

  • visible idols, hidden trust: rethinking restoration

    True renewal isn't found in recreating the past. Drawing from theology and technology, I explore why renovation requires trust in what cannot yet be seen.

  • charting a route, and a tool that doesn't exist yet

    Planning a solo Pyrenees trek revealed how fragmented trip planning tools are—and sparked ideas for what a better experience could look like.

  • how books inspire me months later: my obsidian workflow

    A detailed walkthrough of my Obsidian setup for effortless capture, Readwise integration, and a morning routine that finally made me a morning person.

  • building my astrolabe

    After years of fragmented note-taking across a dozen apps, I built an Obsidian system that turns scattered thoughts into a navigable knowledge graph.

  • taking shape

    Building a ukulele by hand taught me that shaping an instrument is really about shaping yourself—through the sawdust and doors left open.