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The ruined gothic facade of an abbey rising out of bare oaks under a pale winter sky; small dark figures process toward it.
The Abbey in the Oakwood · Caspar David Friedrich · 1809–10 · Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Writing

Short, opinionated pieces on shipping software — performance, architecture, and the realities of building remotely from Baghdad.

  1. · 3 min read

    In defense of melancholy

    On Friedrich, Shakespeare, Swan Lake, and what a culture loses when it decides sadness is a bug to be fixed.

    art · philosophy · culture
  2. · 3 min read

    Sitting in discomfort on purpose

    The small, private, unglamorous habit of being slightly uncomfortable every day — and what it buys you when the involuntary discomforts arrive.

    discipline · body · philosophy
  3. · 3 min read

    Absurdism without nihilism

    Camus is read badly more often than he is read well. A short defense of the harder reading — the one that asks you to keep pushing the rock.

    philosophy · camus · meaning
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