What I learned building a system I didn’t understand yet
Curiosity, distributed systems, and discovering the hard way where the edges actually are.
Think / DispatchesNotes from
Notes from
the archive.
Engineering decisions, race reports, music essays, film criticism, and observations that survived long enough to become sentences.
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The training plan was going well until it became a personality
On pace, patience, and why every long run eventually becomes a philosophical event.
In defence of listening to the same song 47 times
It’s not a loop. It’s research.
Why some endings keep a movie alive
A few thoughts about ambiguity, memory, and the walk home from the cinema.
A field guide to having too many hobbies
Prioritisation, enthusiasm, and the persistent fiction of free time.
The diagram is not the architecture
What boxes and arrows clarify, conceal, and occasionally invent.