Essays / 2026
Thinking
in public.
Long-form work on institutions, computation, and inquiry. Each essay follows a question past its familiar answer and into the structure beneath it.
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Trade & regulation
Friction by Other Means
An investigation of the administrative machinery surrounding tariffs: customs enforcement, import review, valuation, and refunds. It asks how institutional practice can outlast a change in legal authority.
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Industrial capacity
The Structural Failure of America’s Defense Industrial Base
An analysis of consolidation, shareholder incentives, and the production capacity needed for military readiness. It examines government-owned, contractor-operated infrastructure as a structural alternative.
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Computing & public power
The Great Recentralization
An examination of the migration from personal computation to cloud infrastructure, the dependencies it creates, and the political choices that could preserve meaningful local control.
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Inquiry & education
Philepistemicism
An essay about the love of being inside inquiry rather than of having concluded. It develops a vocabulary for that stance and asks what an education built to recognize it might do differently.