Notes written in the margins — half-formed ideas, things I noticed, and the occasional finished thought.

The unfinished draft folder

Most of what I write never gets published. I used to think that was waste. Lately I think it's the point.

Notes on slow tools

A short case for the software that makes you wait a little — and why that waiting sometimes does the thinking for you.

Starting a journal, again

Every few years I start keeping one of these. Here's what's different this time, and what I'm hoping to get out of it.