What I Learned From the Most Unhinged Scam Email I’ve Ever Received
A ridiculous scam email led me into the strange theology of modern shame. Turns out crypto, spam, and surveillance all follow the same gospel.
The Universe Is Trying to Ghost Us
A full-length, spiralling field guide to cosmic scale, ancient light, existential silence, and what it means to be alive in all this nothing.
The Ocean Is Not Empty
We treat the ocean like a holiday spot. It’s not. It’s a graveyard of pressure, silence, and things that shouldn’t exist.
Where Is Everybody? (A Social Survival Field Guide)
A field guide to vanishing male friendship, unread group chats, and the quiet tragedy of “seen 2021.” This isn’t a rant. It’s a map.
You Think You’re Building a Cathedral, But You’re Just Laying Bricks
We imagine our lives as sweeping legacies, rich with purpose and beauty. But we don’t live in the grandeur. We live in the laying of bricks.
I Just Wanted an Axe. Now I Know the Metallurgical History of Scandinavia
I just needed an axe. I ended up deep in Scandinavian metallurgy, bought three, and questioned my entire identity. This is a field report from the spiral — part review, part existential breakdown, part buyer’s guide.
Legacy Systems and Burnt Edges (The Cost of Sticking With What You Know)
Burnt toast is a warning. Legacy systems leak belief, stall teams, and train people to expect failure. Here’s how to name it, and what comes next.
The Toast Audit (A Diagnostic Tool Disguised as Breakfast)
Most projects collapse from quiet misalignment. The Toast Audit is one question that makes invisible chaos visible, before the bread burns.
How to Build a Shared Model (Without a Workshop or a Breakdown)
Most teams break because no one says what they think is happening. This is how to draw it — and why it matters more than another strategy doc.
The Toast Archetypes (And Why Your Project Fell Apart at the Bread Stage)
Projects fail at the bread stage. Here's a stickman field guide to eight people who turn toast into chaos — and how to stop becoming one of them
