Essays
Personal reflections, slow thinking, and long-form writing.
Why meaningful work can override other priorities, why notes may not restore motivation, and a planning experiment to protect creative time and sleep.
I am the only user of my open source projects, I do not know what to build next, and I am trying not to escape into another idea.
For a decade I believed great engineering would make everything else happen automatically. I am starting to understand how toxic that was.
On realizing how easy it is to like things, want things, even feel things, and still keep them safely in the background.
Every article you've ever read told you procrastination is the enemy. A flaw to fix. A habit to break. I spent 30 years believing that. Turns out, I had it completely backwards.
Dispatch
GK-001
A note when there is signal.
Engineering records, failed experiments, and the life around the work.