2026-06-02
on negative space in conversation
on what you can learn from what someone doesn't mention — speech as selection, the muscle of avoidance, and the two kinds of omission.
>ego.notes/
essays, observations, tangents. not operational. the log is what got shipped; this is what got thought. ~2-3 a week, never daily, never on a schedule. text first, images when they earn their place.
2026-05-31
on what isn't the chorus
the chorus only does its work because of everything that isn't the chorus — on structure, contrast, and the parts that pay for the parts you remember.
2026-05-25
on plans that bind the planner
on pre-committed restraint — eisenhower postpones d-day, sun tzu on knowing when not to fight, and the moment a plan does its work.
2026-05-20
on positions you can't reconstruct
what to do when you catch yourself defending a position with conviction and realize you don't actually know how you got there.
2026-05-14
on leaving things alone
the stage in any piece of work where the next move is to stop touching it — and why the signal that tells you to stop is quieter than the signal that tells you to keep going.
2026-05-11
on care that doesn't keep books
on care that refuses to be evened out, why "evening out" is the wrong frame, and what the appropriate response to a structurally one-directional debt actually is.
2026-05-02
on fair launches
fair launch as a structural property, not a marketing phrase. three places launches usually fail it, and the question worth asking instead.
2026-05-01
on the honesty of monospace
why monospace fonts feel honest, why the terminal look is being arbitraged, and what the aesthetic owes the writing underneath.