Index.
A running list of inputs. I add things when they’re actually changing how I think.
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- Book
The Garden of Forking Paths — Jorge Luis Borges
On libraries as cognitive infrastructure. A short story I return to whenever a system feels alive.
1941 - Essay
How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell
Attention as the last remaining act of resistance. The book that reframed beauty as a research method.
2019 - Paper
Neuroaesthetics: a coming of age story — Anjan Chatterjee
Why beauty is not decoration but a way of organizing trust, memory, and meaning.
2011 - Interface
Are.na — Charles Broskoski et al.
The only social platform I trust to make me smarter. A taste library that never raises its voice.
— - Book
The Craftsman — Richard Sennett
On the dignity of slow work in a world that rewards speed. Still the clearest defense of taste.
2008 - Room
Aman Kyoto — Kerry Hill Architects
A building that taught me what restraint actually feels like. Studied for the manifesto on atmosphere.
— - Essay
The Bitter Lesson — Rich Sutton
Read it once a year. Required argument for anyone designing humane systems on top of scaling AI.
2019 - Book
The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard
How rooms shape the interior life. Underlies everything I think about salons and atmosphere.
1958 - Person
Patrick Collison — Stripe · Arc Institute
Clarity, history, compression, long-term ambition. The intellectual side of the worldview.
— - Person
Rick Rubin — Producer · The Creative Act
Presence, intuition, sacred attention. The aesthetic side.
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