ESSAYS
Essays and reflections
Long-form writing on philosophy, technology, culture, faith, work, and the questions that shape a life.
Text as the Long Memory of Thought
When the Archive Is Already There The discussion around the “second brain” often begins with a reasonable concern. Modern intellectual life produces too many…
The Power to Do and the Wisdom to Stop
When Power Feels Like Evolution Over the past few years, many knowledge workers have experienced a change that once would have seemed almost impossible.…
When Criticism Becomes a Crowd
Media, Moral Certainty, and the Recovery of Judgment The Leader Who Said She Would Work When Sanae Takaichi was elected president of the Liberal…
A Day’s Work and a Lifetime of Labor
Before Dawn in Kamagasaki When I was a university student in Japan, I once worked as a construction laborer for a day. I did…
The Books That Remain With Us
The Hunger That Short Reading Cannot Satisfy We live in a time of extraordinary access to written material. Every morning brings new articles, commentary,…
The Work Beneath the Tools
Before the Second Brain Long before digital devices became part of everyday life, intellectual work was carried by paper. The notebook was the most…
The Labor Behind the Morning Paper
The Bicycle on the Frozen Hill There are memories that remain vivid not because we consciously preserve them, but because the body never fully…
The Intelligence Between Us
Rethinking AI Beyond Models, Benchmarks, and Prompts The Generic Answer and the Wrong Conclusion A person opens an AI chatbot, enters a brief question,…
The Lost Paragraph
Recovering Sustained Thought in an Age of Fragmented Information Full of Information, Hungry for Understanding We live in a time of extraordinary informational abundance.…
The Language We Might Have Shared
A Textbook and the Promise of Order I no longer remember exactly where I first encountered an Esperanto textbook. I was still a student,…
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