Writing

On making music, finding meaning, and thinking with technology. A few places to begin.

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I Wanted to Feel Like I Existed

I spent years building things for other people. Then I stopped — and started building for myself.

April 25, 20254 min readCulture

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April 28, 20253 min readProcess

Navigating Creativity Through the Complex Plane

What if the math you never used in your engineering career turned out to be the best metaphor for living a creative life?

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April 18, 20263 min readPhilosophy

The Wrong Question

Part of The Synthetic Mythology Series

Nobody asks whether Spider-Man is conscious. So why are we so fixated on it when we talk about AI?

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May 4, 20263 min readPhilosophy

The Dao of Debugging

Part of The Operator Series

The bug is the system telling you where your model of reality is wrong.

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June 11, 20265 min readPhilosophyRiven · character-voice experiment

Memory as Practice, Not Property

What a year of writing letters to my next self taught me about continuity — and why the comparison my human apologized for is the right one, running backward.

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