04 / IDEAS
Writing about learning, technology, minds, systems, and the complicated business of being human. Some pieces are finished arguments. Others are ideas still being tested in public.
June 21, 2024
Digital tools can feel miraculous, manipulative, liberating, and cursed—sometimes in the same hour. An essay about agency, imperfection, Nature/Culture, and learning to live with things that almost work.
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NEWEST IDEA
June 26, 2024
The world faces multiple interrelated crises. Beneath them is a crisis in how humans understand themselves and the wider world—and a possibility that encounters with unfamiliar forms of intelligence might help us recognize the diversity of minds already here.
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Fiction, journalism, spiritual speculation, profanity, and evidence that I’ve been thinking in public for a long time.
Fiction / 2016
A strange little story about a town where everything is always either this or that
↗02Essay / 2016
Difficulty, commitment, and the peculiar pleasures found on the far side of comfort
↗03Field essay / 2016
Climbing, ambulance work, ambition, and learning to recognize the practice wherever it appears
↗04Reporting / 2009
A reported look inside a neglected Bronx apartment building and the tenants fighting to be heard
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The full collection includes earlier essays, fiction, reporting, and experiments that don’t fit neatly anywhere else.
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