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Blogs & Notes
A blog, a notebook, a framework library and an essay archive in one place. Long pieces when something deserves it, short notes when it doesn't.
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- ReflectionBerkeley Leadership Week104 days of summer, and what happens to a team under incomplete informationA short reflection on an experiential, game-based leadership week at UC Berkeley — and on how groups behave when nobody has the full picture.
- EssayDesigning Temporary UniversesWhat actually makes an event feel like somewhere worth beingAn essay on events as temporary universes: venue, pacing, social permission and the invisible operations that decide whether a room works.
- Build LogI HAVE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE!Creative Hack, again, with pattern recognitionReturning to a hack format already knowing where the traps are — and finding new ones anyway.
- ReflectionSidequested So Hard I Ended Up at London Fashion WeekHow saying yes early keeps producing rooms I did not plan to be inA sidequest story: the chain of small yeses that ended with a London Fashion Week runway.
- Field NoteData… data… and more data!A hackathon spent almost entirely inside a spreadsheetNotes from a data-heavy hackathon brief: what the numbers would and would not say, and how long it took to admit it.
- Build LogMaps, Mechanics, and a Very Bad Sleep ScheduleBuilding a game under jam conditionsA build log from making a game against the clock — maps, mechanics, scope, and the sleep that was traded for both.