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The Essay Everyone Is Sharing Left One Thing Out

2026-04-14 2 min read
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An essay making the rounds argues that 'follow your passion' is bad advice. But it conflates accepting your circumstances with choosing them, and that distinction matters.

The Hobby Isolation Paradox

2026-04-09 2026-04-14 2 min read
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Some hobbies give you community. Some hobbies break the promise of community entirely. I've been thinking about why.

Same Content, Different Job

2026-04-07 2026-04-14 3 min read
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Most build-in-public advice stops at 'just keep showing up.' But what you're building with that consistency matters as much as the consistency itself.

The Day I Achieved Nothing

2026-04-05 2026-04-14 3 min read
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On reactive days, invisible work, and protecting time for thinking.

Posting Into The Void

2026-04-04 2026-04-14 3 min read
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The specific kind of demoralizing that comes from building something, sharing it for free, and getting nothing back.

Why I Started This Blog

2026-04-02 2026-04-02 2 min read
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I've had blogs before. Let them die. This one's about documenting what I build and what breaks along the way.

Building my career timeline

2025-11-24 2026-03-26 6 min read
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I added a career timeline to my About page. Not for a resume, but because building it taught me something unexpected about both code and career. Here's what I learned.

The Entrepreneurial Conundrum

2024-08-13 2026-04-14 4 min read
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I keep having business ideas and not executing on them. Then someone else ships the same thing. The Noah Kagan quote that made me cringe.