Writing

• Choose your fighter
  April 26, 2025
  A lot of these overlap in terms of general principles, but I feel like choosing between these options gives a good aggregate of your moral values...
• Carthage Must Be Destroyed
  April 18, 2025
  Universities are idiotic structures. This was a core belief I've had over the last few years, and I've only become more convinced of its truth after actually beginning uni...
• Cathedral
  April 17, 2025
  If the abbey were a music, it would be a fugue. The abbey's exterior is razor-sharp and needle-like, not unlike the Anglican pride it's supposed to represent...
• Some of my favorite things* v2
  January 17, 2025
  I wrote this almost exactly a year ago. It's one of the posts I had the most fun writing, and recently reread it for the first time in a while...
• Ghost in The Shell?
  May 20, 2024
  I recently rewatched the AlphaGo documentary. I'd already seen it a while ago, but this viewing left me with some thoughts and questions I hadn't considered before...
• The Pleasure Principle
  March 25, 2024
  Over the last few years a compliment I often received was on my ability to stay focused on particular problems, and my ability to go deep into a few subjects...
• Ode (Wonder)
  March 24, 2024
  I don't have anything particularly well-researched or super put together to say in this post; but I've had a very strong feeling of amazement and joy...
• Eco, Nabokov, Wallace
  January 29, 2024
  Umberto Eco is known for being Borges' main apostle. Quite a few writers have a similar vibe, but nobody has matched Eco's ability to infuse books with erudition...
• Unity
  January 16, 2024
  I want to build something that lasts. Something so beautiful and powerful it'll live forever, long after I'm gone...