The notebook
Writing & working things out.
Notes on independent work, climate, technology, and the art of bringing people together. Some ideas are settled enough to share. Most still have a question attached.
Nov 2026
The Deployment Gap: what has to change around a technology before it can scale?
What are we currently asking the buyer to assemble for themselves?
Technology & adoption / Installation → deployment / 6 minNov 2026
Thinking tools need something to work on.
Why I want a public notebook of applications, questions, and revisions.
Thinking / Second-order thinking / 2 minOct 2026
Build the reason to return.
A room becomes a community through what happens after the invitation.
People & systems / Feedback loops / 2 minSept 2026
From a good idea to a useful test.
Before building a solution, decide what would make the experiment informative.
Climate & technology / Inversion / 2 minAug 2026
A better question is a contribution.
Preparing to host a technical discussion without pretending to know everything.
Conversations / Circle of competence / 1 minJul 2026
Optionality has a maintenance cost.
A proposed essay on keeping possibilities open without becoming responsible for all of them.
Independent work / Opportunity cost / 2 minJun 2026
A conversation is not yet an outcome.
The difference between building a network and making it useful.
People & systems / Map and territory / 2 minMay 2026
Begin before you have a name for it.
What is the smallest useful unit of an independent career?
Independent work / First principles / 2 min