Writing on Substack
Doctrines of a Dilettante
“Mostly ramblings around what sparks my interests in the moment...”
Essays on AI and the work it changes, on attention, on books, and on owning the record of your own life.
When making costs nothing, the scarce thing is no longer the making. It is the ability to discern, to judge.
Contents
All essays15 min read
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
In the post-AI world, where does the struggle go?
20 min read
A Light of One’s Own
Owning your own signal in the age of total capture
6 min read
Publish Your Priors
Your knowledge base is collaboration infrastructure. Treat it like one.
26 min read
The Bandwidth Flywheel
Optimization for a bit of a breathing room
8 min read
Long Days and Pleasant Nights
2025 in Books
3 min read
The Next Step
I’ve had one of those all in moments recently (insert SO eye roll…now).
Lines worth keeping
Somebody has the lights on over my own life, and I’m the one left standing in the dark.
A Light of One’s Own Most of the time in alignment meetings isn’t spent aligning. It’s spent discovering you were never aligned in the first place.
Publish Your Priors Productivity for the sake of production is a hamster wheel to nowhere.
The Bandwidth Flywheel Fifty books. Some profound, some disposable, a few that will have me thinking for years to come.
Long Days and Pleasant Nights