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The Algorithm and Samuel

She was ahead of me in the coffee shop, phone in one hand, oat flat white in the other. Talking with her friend. “Honestly? I just trust the algorithm. It knows what I’ll like better than Samuel ever did.” Samuel, I assumed, was her local bookseller. Or maybe the friend who used to slip her…

The One Who Didn’t Know Any of That

People don’t usually tell you when your writing is good. They just read it and move on. So when someone takes the time to say something, you notice. What I started noticing was this. When people mentioned a post, it was always the same ones. The street sweeper my mother pointed out when I was…

When Time Gets Short, Work Gets Better

Most good work doesn’t happen in perfect conditions. It happens with just enough pressure to focus the mind. A little adrenaline. A deadline close enough to matter. Not panic. Not chaos. Just the awareness that time is limited and already running. That awareness changes things. Distractions fall away. The unnecessary options quietly disappear. You stop…

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