Writing

Notes to think more clearly.

Essays and working notes on engineering, craft and the occasional photograph. I write to figure out what I actually think.

In praise of legible systems

The best compliment a system can earn is that a newcomer understood it in an afternoon. A short argument for legibility over cleverness.

Why I still shoot film in a very digital job

Thirty-six frames is a constraint, and constraints are where attention lives. On slowness as a deliberate practice.

The two-minute deploy

How we took a deploy from twenty nervous minutes to two boring ones — and why boring was the goal.