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An aged apostle at his desk, hand pressed to his brow in thought, an open manuscript before him and his sword hanging on the wall beside him.

Writing

Essays and short fiction on people, ideas, art, and philosophy.

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Apostle Paul, c. 1657. National Gallery of Art, Washington

5 pieces

  1. · 7 min read

    Vercel is buying the web

    Receipts on how much of the frontend now answers to one company, the frameworks, the React core, the auth layer, even the job titles, and why the sincerity of it is the unsettling part.
  2. · 2 min read

    R

    A transmission from the search for someone I could not prove existed.
  3. · 2 min read

    Life is interesting

    I don't know whether life has meaning. Lately I'm more interested in why we keep asking.
  4. · 2 min read

    The thin line

    How small the difference between a good person and a bad one really is, and why the people worth trusting are the ones who know they could cross the line and choose not to.
  5. · 2 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.
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