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What I want to do in 2026
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2 min read
I’m going to keep a public list of the “goals” I have for the year. I use goals in quotes because it’s basically just a high level list of things I want to do for the year, somewhere between goals and to-do list. I’ll try to keep it up to date. Last updated: Jan 24,
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Lessons from other people’s notebooks
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9 min read
I’m a sucker for reading about people’s processes and progress. I gravitate towards blog posts and dev logs (development logs) where individuals document what they’ve been building and how. One of my favourite books in this genre is the Prince of Persia book from Jordan Mechner, which is just the journals he kept during the
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A beginner’s guide to good-enough espresso
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4 min read
I just finished an introductory espresso course and want to document what I learned in that course. I’m clearly not an expert — a few Youtube videos and this course are the extent of my knowledge. Shout out to Trent at Timberline Coffee School for the fun and educational workshop. Liz got me a class
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Thoughtfulness makes for great design
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4 min read
Last week I was watching a talk from Daniel Benmergui at NYU Game Center about his design process for Fidel. If you haven’t played Fidel, it’s a fun little puzzle game. He talks about all of the decisions he made and all of the thought and deliberation that went into creating it. As I was
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Building a Generator: Numerical Devlog #01
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7 min read
I’ve been working on a new number puzzle game, on and off, for the past year. It’s somewhat of a spiritual successor of Destructomath+. I have a longer post drafted about its origins, but today I want to get some notes down around puzzle generation. I was emailing a new friend with some details for
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What makes digital food safety so hard?
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9 min read
I recently joined a food safety startup, Provision Analytics, and have been using writing to document and clarify my own understanding. This is based on an internal document I prepared to share with the product team. One of the things you don’t really think to ask until you get food poisoning or you work in
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Wading through latent space to get what you want
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16 min read
I’m sitting here tinkering on a few different projects: chatting with an artist for a small puzzle game, trying to get Replit Agent to build something, and even playing around with Genmoji on my iPhone. Even though I’m using them differently, they made me realize how important it is to clearly communicate for what you
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When I started researching infertility, I kept getting fertility and infertility mixed up. It seems straightforward but there’s an important distinction so let’s get some basic terminology out of the way. Fertility is your ability to conceive a child. And so logically, infertility is your inability to do so. Based on how infertility is measured by the WHO, you’re not considered infertile until you’ve
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Breaking Down Infertility
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6 min read
Infertility is a growing problem facing over 1 in 6 couples. What can we do to tackle this issue?
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Agency needs optimism
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1 min read
The highest value skill you can develop is agency. Agency is your capacity to get something done. It doesn’t matter what the task is, high-agency individuals will find a way. They are creative, resourceful, relentless, and imaginative. Agency needs optimism. You need to believe that whatever you want is possible and there is a way
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