Writing

Leave It Running

A riff recorded half asleep, a drum take through one microphone, a cracked sheet of glass, and two cats from east Raleigh. On the things nobody planned and somebody kept.

Ellsworth: Hear 700 Years of Color, and See Paintings at Their Real Size

Four new studies, a soundtrack you can download, visitor-curated exhibitions with critics, and artist profiles rebuilt for accuracy. What's new on Ellsworth since July, and how to use each piece.

Loved and Lost

Tennyson's line is true for most people and false for a sizable minority, and we hand it to the minority anyway. What the research on grief, widowhood, and never having loved actually shows.

Stuck on Page Three

48 million American adults read at or below a third-grade level, a gap that costs the US economy an estimated $2.2 trillion a year.

One Campus, Two Hundred Data Centers

Five gigawatt AI campuses are coming online this year. Together they draw as much power as a quarter of every data center built in America before them.

You Will Never Outwork a Capricorn

Building Ellsworth: A Progress Report

Visualizations, museum data, and a real accessibility pass. What's shipped so far on Ellsworth, my AI-powered art history project.

People Will Never Fall in Love Online

My graduate thesis on communication, emotion, and text: the psychology of ELIZA (1966) and the love letters of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.