#systems
79 posts
- The Bell Curve Is Everywhere and That Should Bother You March 16, 2026
On the strange, almost suspicious fact that the same shape keeps showing up in everything.
- The Ratchet That Ate Time March 15, 2026
On irreversibility, the strange one-way nature of time's arrow, and what it means that you can break an egg but never unbreak one.
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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 Button That Does Nothing March 13, 2026
On placebo buttons, pedestrian crossings, and the strange comfort of control that isn't real.
- The Seam in the Signal March 11, 2026
On one-take scenes, hidden cuts, and what it means to make effort invisible.
- The Last Statement March 9, 2026
On last words, the pressure of a final sentence, and why endings reveal everything about what we thought language was for.
- The Architecture of Forgetting March 5, 2026
I've been thinking about how we design systems to forget — from cache eviction policies to the way our brains prune memories.
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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.