Essays
This is a collection of personal writing that is not fiction. It is organized by longer-form essays I spent more time on, and shorter-form things I wrote faster. Neither category is inherently better than the other. If you don’t know what to read, pick the title that looks the most interesting to you and go from there.
They are organized from newest -> oldest.
Writing I spent time on
2024
+ How a River Changes
+ Spoiler Free Travel
+ Side Quests
+ The Delicate Art of Predicting the Weather
+ How to Commission a Painting
+ A Better Way to Think About Money
+ Saying It Right
2023 & earlier
+ Why Your Favorite Author Let You Down
+ How to Make an Ocean Disappear
Thoughts I wrote quickly
2024
+ A Bunch of Opinions About Travel
+ When You Have to Reply
+ Packaging Matters
+ Can the Weatherman Get It Wrong?
+ The Most Qualified Person Never Gets Hired
+ Why I didn’t like Lisbon
+ Why I didn’t like Barcelona
+ Why I liked Paris
+ Realizations I’ve Had As An Adult
+ Inconsequential Ideas
+ Asymmetrical Life Upgrades
+ Dangerous Feedback
2023 & earlier
+ The Neil Gaiman Strangeness Trick
+ The Startup You Work at Is Going to Fail
Prose & other
2023 & earlier
+ Las Valentinas
If you have made it this far, you may notice there is not much writing from before 2023. That is not because I wasn’t writing before 2023. I wrote at least a couple milion words before then. The reason is that I no longer like a lot of that writing. Maybe some of my 2024 writing will disappear by the end of 2025.
I view that as a good thing, in some ways. If I still thought all of my old writing was great it would probably mean I have not improved much.