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- Intelligence Is Not Transferable
He endorsed the tax and was startled by the invoice.
essaypoliticstech - Same Brains, Higher RPMs
A hundred years of the same country, the same crowd, the same ideas. Faster wires and overclocked neurotransmitters.
essaypoliticsmedia - Fatigue Life: Steel Bikes
Norman Mailer hated plastic. On aluminum's silent fatigue life, carbon's all-or-nothing brittleness, and why steel is the only material that ages the way he wanted things to age.
cyclingcraftessay - Wet Asphalt
Twenty years of photographing cities at night, Michael Mann's water trucks, and what it took to understand my father through The Insider.
filmfamilyaddictionphotography - A Loose Nut and a Lawyer
On the two exits a generation is being sold: the injury settlement and the prediction-market bet, the trades bought up by private equity, and a wheel that came off a bike I built myself.
societyeconomicsculture - The New Poor Have Graduate Degrees
On credential inflation, AI, and the educated people about to become the most articulate threat to stability.
AIeconomicssociety - Legacy Systems
Twenty years in tech taught me to debug machines. It took a therapist to point out I never once debugged myself.
- Furious
I thought it was a movie about violence. It was always about fathers.
filmfamilyessay - Truing the Wheel
You cannot fix one spoke.
politicsessaysystems - Debris Fields
On the film Flight, my father, and the debris fields we inherit and leave behind.
familyessayfilm - Not a Torque Wrench in the Whole Country
On lubrication, karma, and the 53 grams between my face and a sewer grate.
cyclingessay - The Slide Deck
On the meetings behind harm at scale, and how the people in the room live with the version history.
essayphilosophywork - The Interval
The wrapping paper is the whole chemical. A story about dopamine.
- The Two Books
Eric Hoffer and Arthur Koestler figured out why smart people believe terrible things. Twenty-odd years later, I still can't unsee it.
- Paying the Bill
A meditation on legacy, paying your debts, and what it means to be a good person
familyphilosophylosslegacy - The Kenney Constitution
Thirteen articles, an amendment process, and the one thing that's not up for a vote.
familyphilosophy - Sebastian Sora: The Wake
A eulogy for my father-in-law.
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