Thoughts

Collection of essays, frameworks, and notes. Value subjective and debatable. Filter by topic, or skim the lot.

Go Slow To Go Fast
Jan 2026PhilosophyTech & Product

A hard-earned counter to fail-fast culture: build a solid grasp of context first, so that action, when it comes, is faster.

Understanding Understanding
Jan 2026★ PopularPhilosophy

A metacognitive exploration into the nature of understanding itself — what it is, how it is built, and what ultimately limits it.

Dobism - Do Better, Be Better
Oct 2025★ PopularPhilosophy

A personal philosophy: take better actions, learn from them, become able to take better actions — a closed loop seeking equilibrium.

Components of Happiness
Sep 2025Philosophy

The standard pleasure–flow–purpose model of happiness felt off. A static model works until you know yourself well enough to build a dynamic one.

Sand to Band Philosophy
Feb 2025Philosophy

A personal motto for full-stack understanding — from the sand of physics to the bands of meaning and expression.

Values
Jan 2025Philosophy

The concepts I value and aspire to — curiosity, willpower, intellectual honesty, mastery — that anchor how I work and grow.

We don't need more games
Oct 2024PersonalTech & Product

I’ve made games all my life — but maybe my last games job. Why the market doesn’t need more games, and why the craft still matters anyway.

A Reframe: Products as Windows
Oct 2024Tech & Product

Design a product like a window — built for a viewer and a context, but needing to adapt as the use changes. A forcing function, from the Playmat post-mortem.