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  • Markdown and the Return of Plain Text

    Markdown and the Return of Plain Text

    Somewhere in the last few years, markdown stopped being a niche format favored by developers and became the connective tissue of a much larger…

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  • The Unit of Sharing Is a Folder, Not a File

    The Unit of Sharing Is a Folder, Not a File

    Last week I lost two hours to a Word document. Not writing it. Formatting it. Adjusting line spacing that refused to stay put. Fixing…

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  • The Plain Logic of Lowercase

    The Plain Logic of Lowercase

    For the past few weeks, I have been syncing my notes folder to GitHub almost every day. The workflow is simple. I write in…

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  • The Local Canvas

    The Local Canvas

    The Illusion of the Chat Interface The arrival of natural language chat interfaces for artificial intelligence felt like a sudden, sweeping revelation. We were…

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  • A Simpler Way to Think

    A Simpler Way to Think

    The Fatigue of Managing Knowledge For a long time, I assumed that my difficulty with organizing files was a matter of discipline. If I…

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  • The Work Before the Work

    The Work Before the Work

    There is a familiar moment that has become increasingly common. You sit down with the intention to write, and the idea is already there…

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  • The Story Before the System

    The Story Before the System

    There are moments when technological change unfolds gradually, requiring time and accumulation before its significance becomes clear. Then there are moments when interpretation arrives…

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  • The Shape of Thought

    The Shape of Thought

    Recently, it has become almost routine to hear people say that they have moved from one AI tool to another. Some speak of leaving…

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  • The Hidden Divide in AI Design

    The Hidden Divide in AI Design

    If you spend any time in the current AI discourse, one impression quickly takes hold. Claude is widely praised. Developers showcase its capabilities with…

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  • To Think With, Not Just Through

    To Think With, Not Just Through

    I recently came across an article from WIRED discussing how journalists are beginning to use AI in their writing process. Some use it to…

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  • A Cell That Cannot Leave the Body

    A Cell That Cannot Leave the Body

    I belong to the generation that did not witness humanity’s first steps on the Moon as a lived experience, but came to know it…

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  • The Systems We Choose

    The Systems We Choose

    It began with something small. I asked Claude to help organize files on my desktop. It was not a complex request. It did not…

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