Books read in 2024
August 12, 2025 
Another round of book reviews, arriving fashionably late, but earlier than last year. While compiling the list I realized last year I’d missed two books I began in 2022 and finished in 2023. I’ve included them here, together with the books from 2024.
The through-lines this time around were people vs. systems; how media and technology mediate our lives and reorganize identity; the ethics of knowledge and progress; and the pull between belonging and otherness. I didn’t notice it myself, but Hannah pointed out as soon as she read my first draft that Judaism was another key theme. In the words of DFW, what the hell is water? Continue reading...
H1 '25 Variety Pack
June 15, 2025 
I had a bunch of odds and ends from old rolls of film waiting. The H1 title is kind of a lie, because the first few are from 2024. This set has some expired film experiments, and lots of fun travel photos. First and last here are Hannah stealing my camera. More...
The best tools take power away
June 5, 2025 
Good tools give users agency; the best tools take it away and prevent mistakes. Continue reading...
Company Building Through the Search Lens
May 27, 2025 
Fundraising, recruiting, sales, partnerships—it all can be seen as information retrieval. Continue reading...
Org Charts in Hell
May 23, 2025 
The Good Place is a sitcom about morality, ethics, and who gets into Heaven. Even in the afterlife, characters are trapped in capitalist logic Continue reading...