Notes from the desk
Short research notes and methods — on trust, culture, and reading public signal. Written when something's worth saying, not on a content calendar.
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Essays, methods, the occasional map — published here, fragments on X. Follow along where you already are.
Holy Hours
Minimalism is an argument that won and forgot it was one.
CULTUREThe Half-Life of a Claim
When does a public claim stop being believed?
TRUSTThe Exaggeration Engine
A century of turning one hardwired reflex up past nature.
CULTUREIf you can't write the legend, you haven't earned the color
Every color is a claim: verified, contested, unverified.
METHODThe one question that governs the rest
Why one missing answer corrupts a dozen others.
TRUSTCuteness as Camouflage
The same softness that builds trust can also launder it.
CULTUREScoring Trust Without a Survey
How we rate risk from public signal alone.
METHODThe model reads you first
Your docs are training data. Read them that way.
TRUSTMystics Were Doing Information Design
A short history of the graph, seven hundred years deep.
CULTUREConfusion is a map, not a mess
The idea the whole desk is built on.
METHOD