I Used to Know How to Spell
We didn’t lose our skills—we quietly outsourced them and kept the confidence.
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The Geometry of We
The word WE does a lot of heavy lifting for two letters—conjuring committees, consensus, and coordinated sunglasses, while I just stands at the bratwurst stand, squinting.
Mapping July in December
A loud stranger on a quiet metro reminds me that we plan the future as if it’s obedient, even while it keeps slipping its hand from ours
Rational Decision or Is It?
An ordinary life—coffee purchases, missed houses—reveals how quietly and consistently our decisions are shaped by the invisible rules of behavioral economics.
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The Morning the Toast Burned Twice
Every day is a small sequence of guesses — and the toast will burn anyway.
The Probability of Aliens, and Other Things I Can’t Predict
One person’s meditation on aliens, uncertainty, and the quiet absurdity of trying to calculate a universe that barely explains itself
The Dow Is Over 50,000
One ordinary day, a blinking coffee machine, and the comforting power of very large numbers
Mercury Is in Retrograde, and So Is My Patience
A meditation on astrology, physics, and probability that argues our lives are shaped less by destiny than by noise, tendency, and the stories we tell about both
Seven Minutes Until Arrival
A quiet metro meditation on memory, identity, and the freedom of not being the voice in our heads
Fooled by Randomness
A reflection on how randomness runs through parking lots, marriages, and money—reminding us control is limited and explanations are fragile.