rabbit holes

Endangered languages

Each fading language carries metaphors and stories that rarely translate. Linguistic diversity is a map of how humans have thought in different keys.

Art & forgery

Pigment chemistry, X-ray, and provenance trails—how experts catch fakes, and why the market’s obsession with authenticity is its own story.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

Ethics of progress

When does moving fast break things that matter? I keep returning to trade-offs between speed, care, and who gets heard.

Internet geography

Cables on seabeds, exchange points in cities—the net isn’t weightless. Physical maps of data still shape latency, power, and politics.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

— Albert Einstein

Open source

Communities maintaining code in public—governance, burnout, and the strange kindness of strangers reviewing your PRs.

Evolution × computing

Genetic algorithms, neural scaling, and biological inspiration—when should systems imitate life, and when is that a distraction?

Sisyphus, happily

Camus on the myth: the struggle itself is enough to fill a heart. A useful counterweight to hustle culture and infinite optimization.

Myth across cultures

Same narrative shapes, different names—creation, tricksters, floods. Comparative myth is a back door into how groups encode values.

What is wisdom now?

With endless information and shallow certainty, what would it mean to be wise—not just well-read?

Light & frame

Photography as editing reality in milliseconds—what you exclude is as loud as what you include.