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Long-form investigations into technology, science, perception, and the systems that shape everyday life.
Subscribe to the Blog feedThe Version of You That Exists in My Head
We know people through incomplete models built from memory, experience, and assumption. Then we treat them according to those models and mistake what comes back for proof that we saw them clearly.
The Strange Way We Find Each Other
Friendship begins without ceremony: two strangers happen to meet, keep talking, and slowly become witnesses to each other's private worlds.
People Are the Most Beautiful Thing in the World
People are strange, limited, contradictory creatures, each living inside a private world and quietly changing the worlds of others. That may be exactly what makes them beautiful.
You're Not Seeing Reality. You're Seeing What Spreads
A feed is not a sample of reality. It is the output of a selection process, which means repetition can look like independent confirmation and popularity measures attention rather than truth.
Social Media Is a Distribution System
A post is only one part of an online presence. The larger system connects useful interactions, a clear profile, an accumulated body of work, and a website where passing attention can become trust over time.
Living in the Dark: What Light Might Be Doing to the Mind
I spend a lot of time in a dark room. A small shift I noticed when turning on a light led me into the research on indoor lighting, alertness, sleep, mood, and the limits of explaining a personal experience.