the drawer marked important

Things I've Been Looking Into

Everything here is finished enough to read and unfinished enough to argue with. Pick a pile.

Field Notes

Notes on Noticing

Less a paper, more a collection of things I've been testing on walks. Includes a protocol you can steal.

30 July 2026 · 5 min · #method #walking #practice #short

Cognition

The Shape of Attention

Four months of self-tracking, one very messy spreadsheet, and a stubborn question: where does attention actually go when it drifts?

2 June 2026 · 9 min · #memory #attention #self-study #messy data

Archives

Small Archives

A survey of 41 personal archives — shoeboxes, hard drives, one filing cabinet in a garage — and what survives them.

19 January 2026 · 12 min · #archives #ephemera #interviews #preservation