Use this shelf when you want everything currently public in one place. Reflections and Field Notes have their own entry points.

Start with Work Units if you want the clearest systems essay, move to Highlights for the quickest curated route, or open the Sacred Harp presentation for a visual introduction to the hollow square and four-shape notation.

Work Units, Part 2: My Personal Implementation of the Spec

The implementation layer: baseline, debt, tiering, and the deterministic operating model built around Work Units.

Work Units

The conceptual foundation of the Work Unit system and why older capacity analogies did not go far enough.

Your Life Is a Distributed System — Write the Ideal Docs First, Then Gap Everything

Essay archive entry.

30 Days of Autism Acceptance - Day 9

On sensory limits, loud devotion, and the grief of wanting to enter worlds that still exact pain.

30 Days of Autism Acceptance - Day 13

On correcting misconceptions about autism through lived practice, institutional legibility, and student life.

30 Days of Autism Acceptance - Day 15

On special interests, from aviation and programming to Sacred Harp, and the structures of attachment that make a life.

30 Days of Autism Acceptance - Day 19

On speech, scripting, tone, and why writing remains the highest-bandwidth form of thought.

On Reclaiming "Differently Abled"

On hyperacusis, acuity, and why a condition can remain disabling while still being experienced as a strange gift.