a collection of thoughts on things i find interesting, challenges i’m facing, and what i’m learning.

• 2025-12-24 — your video has to look good with the sound off, and sound good with the visuals off
• 2025-12-24 — you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
• 2025-12-24 — what you want and don't want to do in the moment is not important, what's important is making what you're assigned successful... then you get options
• 2025-12-24 — there was credits before subscriptions
• 2025-12-24 — the things that move the needle tend to lie in the work we are avoiding
• 2025-12-24 — the jitters and nervousness just before
• 2025-12-24 — the graph that changed my life forever
• 2025-12-24 — the different layouts in buses and trains
• 2025-12-24 — testing trial versions are the best
• 2025-12-24 — tension - a short film
• 2025-12-24 — sustaining a healthy habit for a longer term instead of just forcing a habit
• 2025-12-24 — stand and stare
• 2025-12-24 — questions i have about f1
• 2025-12-24 — paris syndrome
• 2025-12-24 — my story
• 2025-12-24 — my intentional effort towards minimalism
• 2025-12-24 — living in replays
• 2025-12-24 — learning is helped by friction
• 2025-12-24 — if x with y responsibilities can do z, there’s no reason why some of you can’t do z
• 2025-12-24 — hara hachi bu
• 2025-12-24 — giving someone an out during a disagreement
• 2025-12-24 — food coma after lunch are the worst
• 2025-12-24 — fihtus project
• 2025-12-24 — everything i'm learning about ghostty and neovim
• 2025-12-24 — euscape
• 2025-12-24 — euscape project
• 2025-12-24 — design fiction
• 2025-12-24 — creative constraints
• 2025-12-24 — babies act out in a way to let you know how you make them feel
• 2025-12-24 — b.b.s
• 2025-12-24 — aesthetic is a creative constraint
• 2025-12-24 — 90-90 rule
• 2025-12-24 — 3-2-1 content system
• 2025-11-10 — Life has a natural tendency to become filled with more. we are rarely looking to downgrade, to simplify, to eliminate to reduce. our natural inclination is always to accumulate, to add, to upgrade, and to build upon
• 2025-10-29 — fomties
• 2025-10-21 — huh, so what is this
• 2025-10-20 — hey, i'm ryan
• 2025-09-05 — lesson from airbnb's origin story
• 2025-09-05 — buy what is best available now and you can always swap out later
• 2025-09-05 — analogy from basketball
• 2025-09-03 — when we focus on amplifying differences, it reinforces spotlight syndrome
• 2025-09-03 — vietnamese coffee + baileys
• 2025-09-03 — values and goals i live by
• 2025-09-03 — there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. the architects plan everything ahead of time… the gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it
• 2025-09-03 — systems over templates
• 2025-09-03 — spending time in preparation to have smooth work
• 2025-09-03 — seaweed chicken + porridge + pork belly
• 2025-09-03 — rule of 3 losses
• 2025-09-03 — riddle of two paths
• 2025-09-03 — over explaining is better than under explaining
• 2025-09-03 — notemaking process to publish
• 2025-09-03 — note templates for templater
• 2025-09-03 — noma framework
• 2025-09-03 — multiple tools, single system
• 2025-09-03 — help your uncle Jack off the horse or help your uncle jack off a horse
• 2025-09-03 — haircut with zack
• 2025-09-03 — daily review routine
• 2025-09-03 — curiosity makes the heart yearn
• 2025-09-03 — clusters cause tension, and tension is required for resolution
• 2025-09-03 — be vanilla
• 2025-09-03 — architects vs gardeners in interpersonal relationships
• 2025-09-03 — app idea that i have (meetwhere)
• 2025-09-03 — a place to brainstorm, a place to create and a place to publish
• 2025-09-03 — 2 cor 5v7
• 2025-09-02 — digital garden
• 2025-08-12 — now page