Learning & Development Love Letters to Things, Thinking & History

Infrastructure
of A Life

None of this is work product. None of it has a client. This is what happens when something snags my attention and I can't stop pulling the thread until I've accidentally connected it to three other things I wasn't even thinking about. Sometimes I love the thing. Sometimes I just found a really interesting connection between things and couldn't leave it alone.

What's
In Here

Wite-Out and how the Nazis stole a Sanskrit good-luck charm have no business being in the same section. But here we are, because my brain made the connection and I wrote 2,000 words about it before I could talk myself out of it.

Not a portfolio. Not a content strategy. Just the stuff I couldn't stop thinking about long enough to realize I'd already started writing it down.

Dots, Pens & Commonplace Books: A Supply Closet Romance
The Dotted
Notebook
From architectural blueprints to bullet journals. How the dotted grid became the analog sovereignty tool for people who think in structure but need permission to deviate.
Reworking →
The Good
Pen
For twenty-four years I believed there were exactly two categories of pen users: normal people and snobs. A dry erase pen in Brian's pocket collapsed that binary in a single afternoon.
Reworking →
The New
Wite-Out
Bette Nesmith Graham mixed tempera paint in her kitchen in 1951. Seventy years later, the correction tape sitting on my desk for three months taught me what forgiveness in writing actually looks like.
Reworking →
The Commonplace
Book
Four centuries of collecting what matters. From John Locke's indexing system to Tiago Forte's digital repackaging. The question that never changes: what is worth keeping?
Reworking →
Em-Dash Unpacking: Thief by Mass Visual Weaponization
The Assassination
of the Em-Dash
Coming →
Semiotic Thief Charges
Don't Stick
Coming →
The Case of Hitler vs.
The Ancient Greeks
Coming →
Stars & Bars: Straight
Out of 1861 Manassas
Coming →
Back to the business side of it all