For fifteen years we rented space on other people's platforms. A growing number of writers are moving back to a domain they actually own — and the tooling has finally caught up.
You do not need to know what a ligature is to make text look good. Six decisions carry almost all of the weight, and most of them are about restraint.
The productivity debate misses the point. The real variable is not where people sit — it is how much of the work has been written down.
The interesting frontier is no longer the largest model on a benchmark. It is the smallest model that clears the bar for a specific job.
Everything published, newest first.
Most focus advice assumes you control your calendar. Here is what actually works when you do not.
Sensor size stopped being the bottleneck a while ago. Light, distance and patience are doing most of the work in every photograph you admire.
The weekend catch-up is real but partial. Here is what the research says about which functions recover, which do not, and how long it takes.
Not the ones with the flashiest skyline. The ones where you can cross the road, find a bench and get home at midnight without a car.
Annual book counts are a strange metric for an activity whose entire value is what stays with you afterwards.
Internal tools get the least design attention and are used the most hours per user. That trade is exactly backwards.
Managed platforms are excellent and expensive. For a personal site, a small VPS is still absurdly good value — with a few caveats worth knowing up front.
Recipes assume four people. Shopping assumes a family. Here is a system built around the actual constraint: half a bunch of coriander going bad on Thursday.
The industry has spent a decade agreeing that algorithm puzzles are a poor signal, and roughly no time replacing them with something better.