Writing
How I think. Essays about teaching yourself and working for yourself, lessons from six years of building software, and notes from books on physics and philosophy. Plus the short posts I put on X and Instagram.
I never finished school. Here is what I did instead.
Six years of teaching myself to build software, what it cost, and the parts nobody tells you about.
Do what you love is not naive advice
The usual objection is that passion does not pay. I think that misreads what the advice is actually asking you to do.
How I design a database schema before writing any code
The hour I spend on entities and relationships saves the week I would otherwise spend on migrations.
Six years freelancing: what I would tell myself at twenty
On pricing, scope, saying no, and the invoice that took five months to arrive.
Notes on A Brief History of Time
What stayed with me, months later, from the book that started all of this for me.
What I think about when I think about entropy
Why the arrow of time and a messy desk are the same observation.
Social posts
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