One mind, refusing to pick a lane.
Essays, fiction & field notes across domains — one connected corpus, written by someone who won't specialize. An archive, indexed by topic.
Contents · 6 topics
GistReading, summaries & the product2 postsAperturePerception & cross-domain synthesis2 postsHobbeetHobbies, taste & amateur rigor1 postAndroidCompose, architecture & craft1 postAI & MLRetrieval, small models & embeddings1 postOnlyBrokenFailure, repair & building to learn1 postGist
2 postsWhy summaries lie by omission
What a good gist keeps — and what it quietly throws away.
Jul 2026
Building Gist in public
Notes from turning a reading habit into a product, one honest week at a time.
Jun 2026
Aperture
2 postsThe refusal to wall domains off
The seams between fields are artifacts of our attention, not features of the world.
Jul 2026
Aperture, from first principles
What we're building and the belief sitting underneath it.
Jun 2026
Hobbeet
1 postHobbies as a portfolio
Treating your side-interests like a diversified index fund.
Jul 2026
Android
1 postJetpack Compose, one year in
What I'd keep, what I'd quietly undo, and what surprised me.
Jul 2026
AI & ML
1 postRAG is mostly retrieval
The model is the easy part; the index is where the real work lives.
Jun 2026
OnlyBroken
1 postOnly broken things teach
A venture built around failure as curriculum.
Jun 2026