Writing

Notes from the workshop.

Why waiting fails, what habits really cost, how the fire is drawn, and why there is no login. Roughly monthly, never a newsletter you have to escape.

Latest · Psychology · 6 min

Waiting is not a feature

Every pause-before-you-buy app asks for the exact discipline the craving just took from you. Here's what we built instead.

28 July 2026

Money · 5 min

One-off purchases compound. Habits compound harder — and almost nobody prices them that way.

14 July 2026

Craft · 7 min

How the fire got its glowing edge, and why we threw away three easier versions first.

30 June 2026

Privacy · 4 min

No accounts, no cloud, no backend. Not as a feature — as the only defensible way to build this.

12 June 2026

We'll mail you when something new goes up. Nothing else, ever.