On Curiosity
When I look at the people who seem the happiest or most fulfilled, there’s one thing they all have in common: they’re deeply curious.
Experimental June
I'm joining my friend on a month-long June experiment: we will dial our digital inputs down to a minimum.
The current nonnegotiables in my life, in no particular order: Exercise; Sleep; Reading; Writing; Family (blood relations not required); Play; Meditation. Everything else can be sacrificed to preserve these.
Dead to the moment
What if you had five years left? What about thirty? It might not matter. Most of it, you’ll be dead to the moment anyway.
The reason I’m drawn to sketching and painting is that, due to AI, everything you see online now is “good enough.” It’s all polished, all passable. Nothing feels rough anymore. Nothing’s a little shitty. And my drawings are super shitty.
(On the flip side, nothing feels truly exceptional either.)
Notes on taste and voice in the age of GenAI
You start with good taste, then spend years making things that fall short of it. There’s no trick to finding your voice. Just repetition, failure, and the hope that one day it won’t suck. Shortcuts won’t help but just delay the part that matters.
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
— André Gide, Winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.
How to think
We’ve started outsourcing our thinking to machines that can’t even think. This piece is about fixing that. I break down the four types of thinking that matter, why writing is a superpower, and how silence might be the rarest luxury we have