Personal Archive
Research,
Writing &
Photography
A record of ongoing inquiries — into systems, environments, cognition, and the things noticed while moving through the world.
Writing
April 2026
On Attention in the Age of Notification
A reflection on how the architecture of modern software quietly reshapes our capacity for sustained, deep thought — and what might be done about it.
March 2026
Field Notes: Three Weeks at High Altitude
Observations from a research stay in the Atacama Desert, where the thin air and radical silence clarify certain questions that feel unanswerable at sea level.
January 2026
Against Curation: A Defense of Disorganized Reading
Why the algorithm's recommendations are the wrong books, and why serendipity remains the finest library science ever devised.
Research
May 2026AI Research
Epistemic Humility in Neural Network Interpretability
Current interpretability methods reveal correlations between model internals and human-legible concepts, but conflating correlation with causal explanation leads to overconfident claims about how these systems actually reason.
February 2026Environmental Research
Microclimate Variation in Dense Urban Blocks
Street-level temperature measurements across 47 city blocks reveal that microclimate variation within a single neighborhood frequently exceeds the variation between neighborhoods — with significant implications for heat-risk mapping.
Photography
Winter Light Studies
Northern Europe
Coastline, October
Mediterranean Coast
Market Portraits
Various — Morocco, Turkey, Mexico