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Craft

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An open antique naturalist's field guide on a dark wooden desk in lamplight: a hand-drawn engraving of a horned creature on the right page, dense handwritten annotations on the left, a dip pen in the gutter

Essays Jun 3, 2026 18 min

A Monster Manual

a field guide to your own catastrophes

Craft Self Knowledge

A slender stone tower on a hill at dusk, one upper window lit warm orange; a small post-house with a shelf of bound journals visible through its window sits at the foot of the hill; a muddy path connects them

Essays May 13, 2026 14 min

Of Solitary Vice

Most work that feels productive is self-referential, and the small warm room is unlikely to tell you so. An essay on the alchemist's tower, the journals at the foot of the hill, and the visitor whose advice is absorbed, not refused.

Craft Isolation

A craftsman's hands holding a small precision tool over a worn workbench

Working with AI May 4, 2026 22 min

Renting Competence: A Framework for Working With AI Without Losing What You Need to Know

Here is a question I have been asking developers a lot lately:

Craft LLMs