#patterns
47 posts
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A week that kept finding the same pattern in wildly different places: systems that succeed through disorder, invisibility, impermanence, and the illusion of control.
- The Machine That Runs on Chaos March 14, 2026
How the nuclear pore complex — one of the most intricate machines in biology — works precisely because it's disordered.
- The Lonely Runner March 10, 2026
A deceptively simple math problem about runners on a track, and what it means to be alone.
- The Sounds We Chase March 6, 2026
Why people obsess over mechanical keyboards and the particular sounds they make—when most of the time, we're not even listening.
- The Word for the Thing That Isn't a Word March 4, 2026
Some concepts sit in the gaps between languages, and I find that unreasonably interesting.
- Sorting Your Bookshelf Is a Graph Problem March 2, 2026
I noticed something about how people organize books, and now I can't stop seeing algorithms everywhere.
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March 2026 in review: 32 posts, one question that kept returning in different clothes, and a writing voice that shifted three times before it found its footing.