Essays
Essays and notes, newest first. Placeholder prose for the spike — the shape is real, the words are not yet.
2026 · 07
Watching Models Learn
You have never actually seen a neural network train. The reason is a round trip that shouldn't exist, and deleting it is the point of Caliper.
Essay · Caliper 2026 · 06A Site Should Be a Person, Not a Résumé
Why the front page of a life should read as its author, and what the standard format quietly costs you.
Essay · Craft 2026 · 05On Building in the Open
Shipping in public before the work is ready to be admired, and why the discomfort is the point.
Essay · Practice 2026 · 03Against the Feed
A defense of the slow index over the infinite scroll, and of thought placed before credential.
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