field notes, not frameworks
Writing
Experience first, then observation, then whatever lesson survived. If a piece sounds like it has everything figured out, I wrote it too early.
Oct 2, 2026 Why I'm Running Experiments on Myself in Public The premise of this site — turning ideas into experiments, experiments into observations, and publishing before the lessons are tidy. Sep 30, 2026 I Thought I Was Afraid of Cold Calling. I Was Afraid of Not Being Liked. Years of dials, one honest realization about what the dread was actually about — and an experiment to test it. Sep 24, 2026 You Don't Have to Like Me for Me to Like Me On the quiet self-abandonment of being agreeable, and the sentence I keep having to relearn.